admins,

probably better to post it here but since I already did to the other
group. any help appreciated.

tnx and sorry

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....fa8bb201823a53

Admins,

Still no progress. The problem turned out to be reading from tapes. I
dd'd data into tapes at about 50Mb/s but read it back at about 1Mb/s.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/358x/3582/

I still don't know what will work other than guessing it's the type
3582 from IBM and trying to apply the newer firmware 69U2L3F.zip

These drives hang off the ADIC scalar i500. There's no way to identify
what type of drive it is except the generic information.

Let's hope that the firmware will help. Thanks


kip.thomas@gmail.com wrote:
> admins,
>
> probably better to post it here but since I already did to the other
> group. any help appreciated.
>
> tnx and sorry
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp....fa8bb201823a53

since nobody is around, i'd have to answer my own question. it's still
not working. i've tried numerous variations of tape-config-list
without luck.

i found that 128k block size gives max write

also IBMtape driver is not required. just use st

kip.thomas@gmail.com wrote:
> Admins,
>
> Still no progress. The problem turned out to be reading from tapes. I
> dd'd data into tapes at about 50Mb/s but read it back at about 1Mb/s.
>
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/358x/3582/
>
> I still don't know what will work other than guessing it's the type
> 3582 from IBM and trying to apply the newer firmware 69U2L3F.zip
>
> These drives hang off the ADIC scalar i500. There's no way to identify
> what type of drive it is except the generic information.
>
> Let's hope that the firmware will help. Thanks
>
>
> kip.thomas@gmail.com wrote:
> > admins,
> >
> > probably better to post it here but since I already did to the other
> > group. any help appreciated.
> >
> > tnx and sorry
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp....fa8bb201823a53