On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> New drives are really quiet.  Not to mention some new libraries (like our 
> Spectra T50) bury the drives in the middle of the library so you can't 
> really hear the mechanism working like you can older libraries with louder 
> drives.  Desktop units you can still pretty readily listen to and tell when 
> they're shoe-shining, but as far as libraries go, does anyone do anything 
> other than just do their best to listen?  That's what I've done 
> for...well...ever but I'm beginning to wonder if there's a better way.
> 

Does your drive have an activity light.  When I first put in my LTO-1,
the card was really old and gave low rates.  A newer card more than
doubled it.  Another difference was the activity light.  It is on
nearly solid now, it was on/off/on/off on the old slower scsi card.

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