Hello, > > Ok, I have increased tapebufs to 80, I'm not really sure how high to > > increase it though. I do have plenty of free ram. > > >I've increased it to 1024 on my PowerEdge 2850 with 8GB RAM.
Ok wow that's a huge increase. I'll keep trying smaller increments until I get the error and then back off. > > SRV# ammt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind > > SRV# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nsa0 bs=32k count=10000 > > 10000+0 records in > > 10000+0 records out > > 327680000 bytes transferred in 122.037586 secs (2685074 bytes/sec) > > Wow, that's bad for an LTO2! My thoughts exactly ;) > Just a thought: Were you sitting next to the tape drive while running the > above test? Did you see it stopping and re-starting over and over...? Yes it is starting and stopping at frequent intervals. I recompiled amanda with --with-buffered-dump to try and fix this but it didn't work. JB
