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Re: DAT trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Dec 4 14:10:33 1998

Date: 	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:49:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Richard Fish <rjf@estinc.com>
cc: Michael Lausch <mla@gams.co.at>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <36671C42.9F9D4F9E@estinc.com>

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Richard Fish wrote:

> Another test is to run a backup, turning off software and hardware
> compression with "mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression off".  Your throughput
> to the drive should be ~366K/sec with DDS-II.  With DDS1 you will get
> ~175K/sec.

It doesn't seem to be that simple.  Sony claims the 7000 can do 1.5MB/s.
In real life, I got 40MB/min, which is about twice the speed I used to get
from older Archive based DATs.



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