From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 15:21:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA29888 for current-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29860 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA20442 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:20:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05942 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:20:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA15883 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 8 May 1996 23:44:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605082144.XAA15883@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: *SLOW* remote dumps To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:44:20 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605081455.HAA04226@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "May 8, 96 07:55:15 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > You need to set a block size. I think there were some changes to the st > driver that makes it more conservitive about what block size it uses > by default. Do a diff between the two drivers and see what's different. Funny -- FreeBSD's tape driver isn't even used in Nate's case. :) (He was dd'ing to /dev/rmt/0ub, so this is supposedly something else than FreeBSD.) -- 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. ;-)