[KLUG Members] why is my tape drive so slow???

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:15PM -0500, Mike Williams was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> It keeps backing up,

That's a confusing locution to use about a data save system. ;-)

> Pentium 2 350, 192 Megs memory.  Drive system is an LVM mirror of
> fairly new 60 gig IDE hard drives.  tape is a Seagate DDS-3 SCSI
> (although I've had the same problem with an HP Colorado TR-4)
> controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW.

We had two IDE drives feeding into a Seagate DDS-3 on a SymBIOS SCSI-2
bus on a P-200, and later a Pentium 3. Now, on this last machine, we
upgraded to a Seagate DDS-4 (20/40 GB) on an Adaptec Ultra-160 SCSI and
I don't think we ever had that shoe-shining problem. (The DDS-3 was
rather slow, over two hours to backup 4 GB's compressed, but it was so
regardless of block size.)

What about bus errors? That would cause shoe-shining.

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