From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 02:51:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27D016A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8398043D54 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:51:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pieckiel@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:pieckiel@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i972pcsA019595 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:51:38 GMT Received: (from pieckiel@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id i972pcAa024750 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:51:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:51:38 -0400 From: "Kevin A. Pieckiel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041007025138.GA19296@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:51:43 -0000 I've got an Exabyte M2 connected to my system. I'm running version 5.2.1 and have seen this drive do 64K transfers with "systat -vm" before (although that was under version 4.9). I can't for the life of me find out why I'm only getting 10K per transaction while I'm reading from my tape now. At the rate it's going, it will take over 10 hours to read through the entire thing. I know the tape drive is capable of reading an entire tape in about three hours. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin