On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > New drives are really quiet. Not to mention some new libraries (like our > Spectra T50) bury the drives in the middle of the library so you can't > really hear the mechanism working like you can older libraries with louder > drives. Desktop units you can still pretty readily listen to and tell when > they're shoe-shining, but as far as libraries go, does anyone do anything > other than just do their best to listen? That's what I've done > for...well...ever but I'm beginning to wonder if there's a better way. >
Does your drive have an activity light. When I first put in my LTO-1, the card was really old and gave low rates. A newer card more than doubled it. Another difference was the activity light. It is on nearly solid now, it was on/off/on/off on the old slower scsi card. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
