From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 22:16:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA29860 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:16:36 -0800 Received: from uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu (uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu [128.174.57.133]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA29854 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:16:35 -0800 Received: by uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu id AA01149 (5.67b/IDA-1.3.4 for hackers@freebsd.org); Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:16:30 -0600 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:16:30 -0600 From: Terry Lee Message-Id: <199501170616.AA01149@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Faster tape throughput Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I've been experimenting with "buffer"; it is similar to "dd" but >> enables my wt tape drive to actually stream. There is also "ddd", though I >> haven't tested it on FreeBSD yet. > ... >Then there is `team' by Piercarlo Grandi (see Vol 27, Issue >195, comp.source.unix), which relies Unix V7 features only >(and hence runs on pretty much every Unix system). A `team' ... >Bakul Thanks, Bakul! I just tried "team", and its works great! During my informal test on our SPARCstation 10/30, team kept the tape streaming better than both buffer and ddd. If we can get team on the cpio.flp floppy, that would be great! Boy could I have used this back when I was running Bell Tech. SVR3! :-) Terry Lee terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu