SCSI Toolbox :: Newsletter - April 2004
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Did you know...
StorageTek Distributes latest OEM tool release
...other Custom Tools
Ask Dr. SCSI - "My development environment is .NET –
how can I use Developers Toolbox"
Did you know...
March Survey Winner
April Survey - For another chance to win
Did you know...
You can see the effects of tape compression on transfer speed using the
Tape Performance Measurement Test? Changing between non-compressible or
2:1 compressible data, and enabling or disabling data compression on the
drive will show what effects data throughput.
For example testing on a Sony SDX-500 AIT drive shows the following:
2:1 Compressible Data, Drive Compression
ON
969MB of data written in 2 minutes, transfer rate = 8.075 MB/sec
2:1 Compressible Data, Drive Compression
OFF
465MB of data written in 2 minutes, transfer rate = 3.875 MB/sec
2:1 Non-Compressible Data, Drive Compression
ON
415MB of data written in 2 minutes, transfer rate = 3.458 MB/sec
StorageTek Distributes latest OEM tool release
Way back in 1995 STK contracted SCSI Toolbox to write a custom field service
tool to run on Macintosh and DOS notebook computers. Since then the tool
has evolved into a Windows based tool supporting all of STK’s SCSI
and Fibre Channel tape, library, and disk devices. The latest release
(version 8.5.9) is in final test stage and should be deployed very soon!
Other Custom Tools
In addition to StorageTek, SCSI Toolbox has created customized tools for
Sony, Seagate, Overland Storage, HP, and Comverse. Do you have a need
for a specialized tool or utility for your service group or for your customers?
Let us know what we can do for you!
Ask Dr. SCSI - "My development
environment is .NET – how can I use Developers Toolbox"
Q.
“My development environment is .NET – how can I use Developers
Toolbox?”
A. .NET is not a currently
supported DTB development environment. However… 1. The next STB/DTB release
in June will support .NET directly
2. In the meantime – here is a link with instructions on how to construct
a DTB->.NET “Bridge” using an ActiveX control – BridgeToVCPSSL.txt
Did you know...
You can instantly restore the Mode Pages of a disk drive to factory settings?
Just go to the Disk->Commands->Mode/Log
Page Functions menu and click the Restore Factory Defaults
choice. Now your drives Mode Pages are factory fresh - good as new!
March Survey Winner
Once
again we'd like to Thank everyone who participated in last months survey!
Your feedback is very valuable to use and we appreciate you taking the
time to complete the survey. We'd also like to Congratulate Ernie Sochin
from Tritronics Incorporated he is the proud owner of the ever popular
USB Pen.
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