I have installed my first VXA drive at a mixed Mac/PC LAN of about 25
systems total. It's a switched 10/100B-t network.
I noticed today that the drive was only getting about 29 gigs per
tape. After talking with Ecrix, I found out that the drive may be
encountering network slowdowns...there are several older systems on
the network...and the drive is putting gaps on the tape to compensate.
Even more interesting, I found out that Ecrix has a DOS utility that
will toggle the drive settings so it will maximize tape capacity
instead of speed, which will hopefully get more data on the tape.
Okay, so once I locate a Windows machine with 25 pin female SCSI out,
or the right adapters, and get the Ecrix tool running and so forth, I
will get the drive capacity over 33 megs...maybe. Or I can boot up
VPC and see if it can drive an Adaptec 2906 card and the DOS
utility....hmmm...
I'm wondering if anyone on the list has run into this problem or have
any tips on how to diagnose the extent of the problem.
TIA
Todd Reed
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