Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:16:50 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> Cc: dc-sage@dc-sage.org, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, amanda-users@cs.umd.edu Subject: Re: DDS/2 tape specs Message-ID: <199807032016.PAA21647@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 01:27:35 EDT." <596.899443655@brown.pfcs.com>
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Harlan Stenn writes: > My second test took 8191 `y' characters followed by a newline: > > % yes `cat 8ky` | dd bs=8k of=/dev/rst0 > > and I eventually killed after over 24 hours' elapsed time. > When I killed it, I think it claimed to have written nearly 10G to the tape. 24 hrs for only 10G doesn't sound good. To a similar DDS-2 (with compression) drive I once used dd to copy /dev/null until something broke. Got 88G on a DDS-1 90m tape. Took about 8 hours. SGI Indy R5000, Irix 6.2, OEM SGI/Seagate/Archive DDS-2 tape drive. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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