18 Feb
2000
18 Feb
'00
10:46 p.m.
The current 7k drives all have 8Mb buffers, which let's them hold enough data if they have to re-wind and get back upto speed. That takes about 1.5 seconds to do.
My reference is the "DLT University Handbook".
Luke> Any idea how to determine how large the buffers are?
I'm not sure, you'll probably have to go and beat on your vendor. There might be a SCSI PROM page on the drive which gives those specifics, but more likely just giving them the serial number of the drive should let them tell you what it's got.
John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 john.stoffel@ascend.com - http://www.ascend.com