Replying to myself ...
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> drive. My tape drive (Vendor: HP Model: HP35480A Rev: T603,
> according to /proc/scsi, a DAT-2) is unreliable with buffering
> and will lose bytes all over the backup if I use buffer.
> It works OK (though slowly[1] for still uninvestigated reasons)
> without 'buffer'. Any tips here?
> [1] 160-180KB/s with internal compression switched off or
> incompressible data, 350KB/s with compression on on
> compressible data. Thats 600 MB/h. Is that normal?
As I had to learn, said drive is *not* a DAT-2 but a DAT-1
and 180KB/s is about the advertized speed. DAT-2's are
usually much faster (factor 5 or 6, IIRC). I see a
replacement coming ...
-Wolfgang
