SONY AIT Tape Drive & SBS 2003 - any known issues?

I am having major problems getting a Freecom (Sony) tape drive to
operate properly. The latest drivers have been installed for the Sony
AIT 80GB IDE drive and similarly Windows SBS 2003 has been fully
updated. Using Yosemite backup software (supplied with the tape
drive) I am getting a data transfer rate of only 1MB / sec, and it is
taking a large percentage of processor usage during the writing
process. The Server is doing nothing else at the time of writing to
the tape - I have disconnected all the other network devices. The
suppliers of the tape drive have given me a new drive with exactly the
same results, and have advised that they believe it to be a SBS
issue. Replacement new Sony tapes make no difference.

So my question is - does anyone know of any known compatibility issues
with SBS 2003 and a Sony AIT drive or does anyone have any ideas what
else could be causing this problem. Thanks in advance.

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