From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 2 13:14:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA03417 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA03410 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.8.4/8.8.2) id FAA09846 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 05:14:21 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:28:59 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site Subject: ft < 50kb/s ?? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. I have now also moved the drive over to another machine and floppy controller, exactly the same results. I have yet to check the drives performance under DOS. How can I measure/monitor the performance? Regards/Mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | 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 | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+