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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup
Date: 13 Jul 1996 12:42:28 GMT
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dfisk@world.std.com (David Fisk) wrote:

>  Under Win95 I did a full backup (with compression) and got 
> about 38MB/sec with 1G of data.

That would be stunning, assuming the SCSI bus runs at 10 MHz and
is 8 bit wide (=> 8 MB/s). ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)