[Sunhelp] Using Exabyte Mammoth Tape Drive for Ultra machine

Stanley Seak bss at wkg1.umac.mo
Thu Nov 18 11:01:53 CST 1999


  I have checked "Sunsolve", some articles said that backup
performance is very slow using Networker5.0. and there is no
solution.

  Really no solution? Anybody help me?

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:
> Unless I am missing something I don't see the hardware listed???
> -----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Stanley Seak [SMTP:bss at wkg2.umac.mo]
> 	Sent:	Sunday, November 14, 1999 10:26 PM
> 	To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> 	Subject:	[Sunhelp] Using Exabyte Mammoth Tape Drive for Ultra
> machine
> 
> 	Dear all,
> 
> 	  I'm now planning to purchase Mammoth Tape Library for my system.
> 	I have borrowed a Mammoth Tape drive for evaluation. From
> 	the technical report from Exabyte, it was said that using
> 	Ultra 2 + Mammoth Tape drive can reach about 2.6MB/sec averagely.
> 	However my evaluation shows that it only 0.8xMB/sec. I'm using
> 	the Solstice Backup 5.1 software. I'm using Solaris 2.6 OS. The
> 	kernal of 2.6 shows that it should support Mammoth Tape Drive.
> 	Why my performance is stil so slow? Any comments and suggestion?
> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 	Stanley,
> 	University of Macau
> 
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