11 May
2007
11 May
'07
3:30 a.m.
I'm only getting just over 20KB/s out of the
drive
though, so I'm trying to
trace the problem there at the moment - I gather
transfer rate should be more
like 15 times that value.
A 31 hour restore if there's 2.3GB of data on the
tape is a bit on the lengthy
side...
Yeah, those things are slow, but not that slow. Make
sure that the drive is elevated higher than the SCSI
controller/computer - it might help if the data can go
downhill :)
But seriously, it should be going faster than that -
is it shoe-shining a lot (moving back and forth over
the head)? That means that it's retrying too much -
either due to tape errors, or a dirty head. You might
have to put your ear right on the drive to hear it -
they are kinda quiet (at least compared to the
computers I typically use them on!)
-Ian