oswaldt Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 I'm a new retrospect user (6.5 for windows). I purchased a Certance Hornet 40 (Travan) tape drive and installed it. It's running remarkably slow (58MB) compared to the manufactor claim of 240MB. I also told retrospect to use hardware compresion and I got exactly 19.9GB on my first tape, a 20/40GB (after 6 hours). This doesn't seem right, can anyone help? I'm using the latest drivers and firmware for the drive along with the latest version of retrospect and the latest RDU. The current PC is a 1.4Mhz AMD box and the drive is the slave on the secondary controller with no other device on that controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palter Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 I have the same type drive. First, the drive doesn't support hardware compression. Use software compression. Second, the quoted maximum rate is for a SCSI controller. On IDE, it won't be as fast. (Further, I believe the 240 MB/min presumes software compression as well which means the real hardware maximum speed is 120 MB/min.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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