Alec-

What brand of Drive and what type (scsi/fc)?  I wonder if you possibly
have a bad tape and the slowness is caused by error correction, have you
tried a new tape?

-scurry  


On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:38, Browne, Alec wrote:
> One of our seven LTO drives will not read or write above 1.6 MB/sec. 
> In fact, it stays at exactly 1.6 MB/sec while in use.  Our other
> drives average 10MB/sec, and spike up to 20+ MB/sec.  I replaced the
> drive, with no effect.  We are using NetBackup datacenter 4.5 on a Sun
> V880 running Solaris 8.  If it's not the drive, where should I
> start checking for the error - media server, robot, or cables between?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Alec Browne
> Systems Administrator
> The Institute For Genomic Research