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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!rutgers!spcvxb.spc.edu!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Getting tapes to stream (was Re: What kind of tape is OK w/ 386BSD? Message-ID: <1992Aug1.102410.3470@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 1 Aug 92 14:24:10 GMT References: <28JUL199218203085@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul29.161438.6372@mks.com> <55595@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul31.161715.12462@mks.com> Organization: St. Peter's College, US Lines: 15 In article <1992Jul31.161715.12462@mks.com>, fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes: > mm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike MacKenzie) writes: >>I have a Wangtek 5150ES SCSI-36 tape drive and it works, but slowly. >>It took over 12 hours to back up ~80 meg. I've tried various buffer >>sizes with dd with no improvment. > > Wow, 12 hours ? What sort of hardware (386 ?) and how fast is it ? > My Wangtek 5150EQ wasn't able to stream, but it didn't take that long... Sounds like you don't have buffered mode enabled on the 5150ES. You can either set the jumper or use the SCSI command to enable it. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381