PV-124T shoe shining on PE2950

[Kuba Ober]

On Monday 05 March 2007, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> Hi all:
> I've got a new PE2950 2GB RAM with an Adaptec 39230A which links to a
> PV124T LTO2.  That's the only device on that SCSI chain, since disks
> (2xRAID1 + 4xRAID5) are attached to a PERC5/i.  The operative system is
> Debian "Etch" amd64 (that's the arch for all x86_64 CPUs).
>
> The problem is that I can't make the tape stream, it just shoe shines at
> about 2MB/s.

Turn off compression, or feed it real data (like dd if=/dev/sda ...). It's 
compressing lots of zeros and those compress well enough for the tape to 
stop. That happens on my LTO-2 drive. I don't know why you've got the 2mb/s 
figure, though -- it should be much faster than that.

Kuba