[newbie] SCSI Tape drive tuning

2003-11-19 Thread Russ Kepler
I have an HP SureStore 12000e tape drive I use for backup, and while it should be capable of 1MB/s it generally performs lower than that, most of the time at or around the 400KB/s rate (using 'dd bs=1M' to time things). Is there someplace I could look for tuning ideas? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Thread Dale Kosan
Thanks,now I can use the drive! Can I tar.gz to the tape using /dev/st0 ?

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure, but I think the taper program does that for you. If you abslutely prefer that everything be .tgz'd or tar-gzipped before being depositied onto the tape drive I have some bash script that someone from this list wrote and gave to me that will do that job very nicely and you can

[newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-22 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello,how do I tar,gunzip files to a scsi tape drive? I have read the man page but dont understand them.Also,how can I find out what device name Mandrake 7.2 has given to the drive,cant find it listed any where.I guess I am not looking in the right place.Thanks for all your help...

[newbie] SCSI tape drive -- hows it work?

2000-11-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, Say, I've got an SCSI HP Colorado T4000s tape drive. What do I do to make it work? I've got a ton of 4GB tapes sitting in a box just collecting dust. Seems a shame to waste them all. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered