On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 at 2:07pm, Guy Dallaire wrote
There's no easy way to tell wether it's shoeshinning or not. The performance is fine for us. Were not backing up a lot of data. I should probably put a better SCSI card in the server though. It never occured to me that the LTO could not throttle to lower than 20 Mb/sec.
The performance may be fine, but shoeshining is Bad for both media and drive life.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
