Does fedora mt-st-0.7-13.1.i386 rpm work on RHL 9?

[Tom Haws]

Thom Paine wrote:

>I use Arkeia with my Dell Powervault 120T DAT. It has the library
>function, and an 8 tape magazine. I find it slow as well, but I guess
>100G in 12 hours is quick enough for me.
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>http://www.arkeia.com
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>-=/>Thom
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Thanks for your reply Thom.  Actually, if you're getting 100GB in 12 
hours on DAT technology, that's not bad.

However, I have 500GB to back up, and I have overflowed my DLT 
autoloader capactiy, so I bought the LTO-2 one.  That one *should* get 
up to 187GB/hr according to the specs (assuming 2:1 compression), with a 
top end of 1.4TB native (no compression).  I thought I was good to go.

Instead, I got 30MB in 5 minutes!!  Definitely something wrong there, so 
I am searching like crazy for a solution.  Had to put it all back 
together so I could at least get an incremental backup on my DLT drive 
last night.  I've been looking through lists all day today, because it 
is a production server, and I can only work on it during a limited 
window at night....

*sigh*

Anybody else out there have any ideas?  Do you know if I do a "mknod -m 
666 /dev/st0 c 9 0" with the tape drive hooked up, does it do anything 
different than if there wasn't one installed?  Like read the status bits 
on the drive to tell what it's capabilities are?

-Tom

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