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Re: Exabyte EXB-8505XL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Mandelstam)
Fri Jan 31 12:05:10 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 19:00:23 +0200 (SAT)
From: Louis Mandelstam <louis@sacc.org.za>
To: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701311647.LAA01492@the-great-machine.mit.edu>
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Jered Floyd wrote:
> I got the document from Exabyte, but it doesn't seem to help. The main
> problem is that during tape operation I will get random invalid sense
> data errors and 'Error writing filemark' errors within a few hundred
> megabytes. Tape performance is lower than I expected, too, and it takes
> about 15 seconds from the beginning of a write operation before the
> tape is actually written to.
Exabyte operate a mailing list which I'd suggest you post your description
of your problem to.
I don't have problems with performance (though it mostly works over the
network at the moment so..) but I can confirm that the unit takes a while
after recieving the first command before getting going. I assume it's due
to the mechanism used, dunno. Seems to get up to speed ok once its going,
so I write the start-up time off as overhead.
Thing that bothered me most when I first used it is you can't hear the
drive working at all. This is a fairly noisy machine room, but I seem to
remember actually trying during a scheduled downtime once and still not
hearing it. ;-)
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