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...partitions using the perc 4 hardware. The problem is - reading from the disk, and writing to the tape is pathetically slow. The specs say I should get around 80Mbyte/second - in reality - is about 500 Kbytes/second Writing just to tape, using /dev/zero as input and dd to write, I can get up to 60Mybte/second, indicating that the tape drive and scsi card is functional from a hardware perspective. Since I can read and write data to the disks - I assume that they are functional. The files are 80Mybtes for the minimum size that I am writing to tape. DELL Support hides behind the fact that CENTOS i...