LTO-3 is rated at 27 MiB/s minimum, any less than that total to the drive 
will shoe-shine the drive/tape.

Justin.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, kjbaumann wrote:

>
> All,
>
> We are running NB enterprise server and we have 6 LTO3 tape drives in an ADIC 
> I2K connected via fiber.
>
> My question is how do I know that my drives are being used to their full 
> ability?  I want to make sure that I am sending enough data to the tape 
> drives so they constantly are spinning and not stopping to 
> rewind-record-rewind-record.
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
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