Help with IBM LTO3 configuration



admins,

I have a Sol 10 box and I have some issues with tape drive performance.
The tapes are IBM LTO3 Ultrium. It's hanging off a QLC 2460 card.

The redbook from IBM says I have to install ibm drivers and configure
through /kernel/drv/IBMtape.conf

Can I ignore this and go straight to configuring /kernel/drv/st.conf?

tape-config-list=
"IBM ULTRIUM-TD3","IBM Ultrium Gen 3 LTO","CFGIBMULTRIUMGEN3LTO";
CFGIBMULTRIUMGEN3LTO = 1,0x3b,0,0x45863d,3,0x40,0x42,0x44,2;

that's what I have for the options. I've tried a few variations w/o
luck. The drives are off a brocade switch

dd from disk to tape is blazingly fast

the problem is dd from tape to tape

fcinfo

Remote Port WWN: 500308c098f44005
Active FC4 Types: SCSI
SCSI Target: yes
Node WWN: 500308c098f44004
Link Error Statistics:
Link Failure Count: 0
Loss of Sync Count: 0
Loss of Signal Count: 0
Primitive Seq Protocol Error Count: 0
Invalid Tx Word Count: 0
Invalid CRC Count: 0
LUN: 0
Vendor: IBM
Product: ULTRIUM-TD3
OS Device Name: /dev/rmt/0n

Nov 28 09:36:07 sunbox avrd[961]: [ID 960306 daemon.notice] st.conf
configuration for IBM.ULTRIUM-TD3.02 (device 3), name [IBM Ultrium Gen
3 LTO], vid [IBM ULTRIUM-TD3], type 0x3b, block size 0, options
0x45a63d (see st(7D) man page)

please help, tnx.

.



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