Sort of.  The problem is that just because you have a 40MB/sec controller,
that doesn't mean it can sustain that transfer rate for a period of
time...it's more like a burst rate.  I'd take off 20% to be safe and use
32MB per second for my anticipated maximum transfer rate.  Thus I'd only put
2 DLT-8000 drives per bus. It's sort of like Ethernet...you really won't get
100Mb/sec sustained throughput.

Steve

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> I was having a conversation with a friend about the number of SCSI tape
> drives per controller.  He was stating that he has 3 DLT8000's
> off of one 40
> Mb / sec controller (w2k).  Doing the math, you'd say the tape
> drives cannot
> saturate the controller.  Am I missing something?
>
> g
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