Pessoal, tenho um servidor com uma unidade de fita para backup que está
apresentando baixa velocidade ao gravar. Preciso da ajuda de vocês para
aumentar a velocidade.

A fita deveria chegar a uns 30MB/s, mas consegui apenas 2,5MB/s.

Estou usando Debian Etch. A unidade de fita é uma HP Ultrium 460, e está
ligada a uma Adaptec AIC7902. Tenho dois HDs em RAID-1 por software,
ligados em outra Adaptec AIC7902.

Testei a gravação na fita com:
$ tar cf /dev/st0 --totals /home

E tenho este resultado:
Total bytes written: 6089707520 (5,7GiB, 2,5MiB/s)

Abaixo seguem mais informações.
Muito obrigado pela atenção.

Favor responder com cópia para mim.

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$ lsscsi
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[0:0:0:0]    disk    MAXTOR   ATLAS10K5_147SCA JNZH  /dev/sda
[0:0:1:0]    disk    MAXTOR   ATLAS10K5_147SCA JNZH  /dev/sdb
[1:0:6:0]    tape    HP       Ultrium 2-SCSI   F63D  /dev/st0

==========
$ lspci -nn
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04:02.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320
[9005:801d] (rev 10)
04:02.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320
[9005:801d] (rev 10)

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$ dmesg
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scsi0 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 3.0
        <Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter>
        aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz,
512 SCBs

  Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_147SCA  Rev: JNZH
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
 target0:0:0: asynchronous
scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
 target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
 target0:0:0: wide asynchronous
 target0:0:0: FAST-160 WIDE SCSI 320.0 MB/s DT IU QAS RTI (6.25 ns,
offset 127)
 target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
  Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_147SCA  Rev: JNZH
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
 target0:0:1: asynchronous
scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
 target0:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation
 target0:0:1: wide asynchronous
 target0:0:1: FAST-160 WIDE SCSI 320.0 MB/s DT IU QAS RTI (6.25 ns,
offset 127)
 target0:0:1: Ending Domain Validation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 3.0
        <Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter>
        aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz,
512 SCBs

  Vendor: HP        Model: Ultrium 2-SCSI    Rev: F63D
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 03
 target1:0:6: asynchronous
 target1:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation
 target1:0:6: wide asynchronous
 target1:0:6: Domain Validation skipping write tests
 target1:0:6: Ending Domain Validation

[...]

st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
st 1:0:6:0: Attached scsi tape st0
st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)

==========
$ less /proc/scsi/aic79xx/1
==========

Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 3.0
Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz, 512 SCBs
Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128

[...]

Target 6 Negotiation Settings
        User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|RTI|QAS,
16bit)
        Goal: 3.300MB/s transfers
        Curr: 3.300MB/s transfers
        Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings
                Commands Queued 5439
                Commands Active 0
                Command Openings 1
                Max Tagged Openings 0
                Device Queue Frozen Count 0

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