Re: SCSI Tape, help

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From: James Tappin
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00

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On 9/6/99, 10:07:08 PM, Giulio Harding <giulio@cs.adelaide.edu.au> wrote 
regarding Re: SCSI Tape, help:



> And as a side-note, could anyone recommend what SCSI settings I
> should be using with such a tape drive? I haven't been able to
> find out much on the web, and I'm looking for recommendations
> for such values as 'Command Queueing' and 'Synchronous
> Transfers' - what do tape drives usualy take for SCSI settings?

I used to have a lot of bus hangs with a Seagate SCSI DAT drive, until 
I changed the SCSI settings to Asynchronous transfer, I've not had any 
problems since even with single backups that fill almost the whole 
tape which wouldn't have got 10% done before.

James

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