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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!melbourne.DIALix.oz.au!seeware!usenet From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Subject: ft really slow? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: usenet@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: putte.seeware.dialix.oz.au Organization: Private FreeBSD site Message-ID: <E22uHv.3oM.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 04:15:30 GMT Lines: 27 Hi, I have been a user of the ft tape driver for a number of years. Over time I have swapped my tape drive between different motherboards and controllers. The drive has served me well (especially with the lft utility instead of the standard ft driver) in general, however in the current configuration it is dead slow - It just took me 12 hours to back up 200m of data, according to the manufacturers notes it should be able to do 1Mbit/second, which is around 30minutes. What can I be doing wrong? I have moved the tape driver over to a 486-100 motherboard with onboard floppy-disk controller. Should I try using a stand-alone I/O card? How can I measure/monitor the performance? Regards/Mark PS Please copy any replies by email as I am going to be away for a while and I wouldn't want your replies to expire.. -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+