since nobody is around, i'd have to answer my own question. it's still
not working. i've tried numerous variations of tape-config-list
without luck.

i found that 128k block size gives max write

also IBMtape driver is not required. just use st

kip.thomas@gmail.com wrote:
> Admins,
>
> Still no progress. The problem turned out to be reading from tapes. I
> dd'd data into tapes at about 50Mb/s but read it back at about 1Mb/s.
>
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/358x/3582/
>
> I still don't know what will work other than guessing it's the type
> 3582 from IBM and trying to apply the newer firmware 69U2L3F.zip
>
> These drives hang off the ADIC scalar i500. There's no way to identify
> what type of drive it is except the generic information.
>
> Let's hope that the firmware will help. Thanks
>
>
> kip.thomas@gmail.com wrote:
> > admins,
> >
> > probably better to post it here but since I already did to the other
> > group. any help appreciated.
> >
> > tnx and sorry
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp....fa8bb201823a53