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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:14:21 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DLT 4000 throughput and cstream
Message-ID:  <20010730211421.A1475@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107281231100.13594-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:11:56PM -0700
References:  <3B630DE0.FC696BC4@progroup.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107281231100.13594-100000@beppo>

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:11:56PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> [ -hardware trimmed- Only one list is needed ]
> 
> 
> > >   KB/t tps  MB/s
> > >  60.59  22  1.31
> > >  60.59  22  1.31
> > >  61.05  22  1.31
> > >  60.62  22  1.32
> > >  60.59  22  1.31
> > >  ...
> 
> This is about half the speed you should expect.

Hm, it is about what I get on my DLT4000 drive using dump. Dump just
does not keep the tape streaming.

I know from experience that the DLT can do much better than this.

Wilko

> Testing with dump, w/wo cstream, is not helpful. You need to test with a
> non-zero data generator:
> 
> yorp.feral.com > root camcontrol devlist
> <SEAGATE ST39175FC 0001>           at scbus0 target 129 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
> <SEAGATE ST39175FC 0001>           at scbus0 target 130 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
> <SEAGATE ST39175FC 0001>           at scbus0 target 131 lun 0 (pass2,da2)
> <SUN DLT4000 CC2D>                 at scbus2 target 2 lun 0 (sa0,pass3)
> <HP C1537A L609>                   at scbus2 target 3 lun 0 (sa1,pass4)
> <TANDBERG SLR5 4/8GB =09:>         at scbus2 target 6 lun 0 (sa2,pass5)
> yorp.feral.com > tape_pattern_tester 
> tape_pattern_tester: [ -v ] [ -b blksize ] [ -r blocks per file ] [ -n
> number-of-files ] -f no-rewinding-tape-drive
> yorp.feral.com > tape_pattern_tester -v -b 32k -r 1000 -n 5 -f /dev/nsa0
> .......Rewind Tape
> ........Write Pass
> EOT at File 4 Record 1000 Offset 32768 (163840000 total bytes written)
> Elapsed Seconds: 60; Data Rate: 2.6MB/s
> .......Rewind Tape
> .........Read Pass

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