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What kind of tapes are you using?

Have you been using fresh (virgin) tapes in the 7000, ones that have not been written to with the DLT 4000?

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com



-----Original Message-----
From:   Carl McNamee [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, 12 April, 1999 1:24 PM
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Subject:        DLT7000 vs DLT4000?

We have been using dlt4000 tape drives for a couple of years now and wanted
to shorten our backup window so we decided to try the dlt7000.  When I
finally received one and installed it on the system with all the latest DLT
and Turbo Store patches we were surprised to find the backup times were
exactly the same as on our DLT4000's!

Puzzled by this I had several tests run; with compression, without
compression, ect...... and each time the backup took almost exactly 30
minutes.  The dlt7000 is connected to its own f/w scsi controller and is the
only device in its card cage off of our 997/500.

Has anyone on the list had a similar experience?  Any thoughts on why the
tape drive would be so slow?

Carl McNamee
Systems Administrator
Billing Concepts
7411 John Smith Dr  Suite 200
San Antonio, TX  78229
(210) 949-7282
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