Howard Hoxsie wrote:
>
> Is there a chance that the F/W SCSI channel is the bottleneck?  I seem to
> remember that they are 20mb/sec and that the DLT7000 can go faster than that
> if it is on a High Speed SCSI channel.  Hope I'm not barking down the wrong
> cable here.....
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny?  I'm interested in checking out DLT7000's
> myself, primarily for the high-volume backup capability of 70Gig compressed.
>
Just a thought, here.

You said you used virgin tapes.  As I recall, the drive has to
format the
tapes if they are not already formatted and this takes time.

Could this be a factor?

Nick D.