Those are some good speeds. What scsi card are you using, and what scsi
devices are on them? What's board/chip combo is the machine?
They aren't suspiciously fast, but I haven't been able to replicate them.
BTW- I find the email list atrocious, and consider it a read only device.
-dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Tapetype: STD2401LW
>
>
> Thanks to all nine of you (boy do I feel dumb) who pointed out that
> hardware compression should have been off. I forgot that
> rebooting this
> machine reset the drive to hardware compression on, argh.
> Five minutes
> with a screwdriver and no more... :)
>
> Some more realistic results:
>
>
> define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
> comment "Seagate STD2401LW DSS4 20/40GB DAT Drive"
> length 19457 mbytes
> filemark 1 kbytes
> speed 2681 kps
> }
>
> One other note... for two days now I've been getting timeouts
> on the primary MX server for the amanda list (
> mx-1.omniscient.com ). Has anyone else seen these issues?
> I've been able to send mail by connecting via telnet to port
> 25 and entering my headers and data block by hand, but I'd
> prefer not to have to do that.... ;) Is is er... Is it just
> my end, and some flaky MTA, oir is mx-1
> (surly.omniscient.com) under a heavy load so much of the time
> that the MTA times out? I noticed telnetting in that it took
> 15 seconds to get a connection... rather long,. but who's to
> say it's not some network issues on my end...
>
> Thanks again to everyone for pointing out the error of my way :)
>
> --
> Mark Hazen DataBuilt, Inc. (843) 836-2101 Ext. 251
>
> They may forget what you said, but they will never forget
> how you made them feel. --Carl W. Buechner
>
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