Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:56:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Brant Katkansky" <bmk@pobox.com> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New motherboard breaks tape drive Message-ID: <199612312056.MAA03529@itchy.atlas.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961231135104.353A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Dec 31, 96 02:02:35 pm"
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> I have an Archive Viper 150 tape drive that has served me well > for many years. I have never had difficulty getting the maximum > performance of about 100K/second writing speed from it... > > ...until upgrade my old 486DX33 motherboard to a Pentium 100 > (ASUS). Now the tape drive will no longer stream and typical > writing speed has dropped to about 50K/second. > > My first thought was something with the new SCSI controller (ASUS > SC200) was the problem so I put my old Adaptec 1542C in, but the > result was the same (I even tried putting the drive alone on the > bus). I tried team, but it didn't help. > > I'm fishing for where to look next. Ideas? No ideas, but I'd like to know as well. I have the same exact problem - I'd just forgotten about it since I only do backups about every six months or so. :) -- Brant Katkansky (bmk@pobox.com, brantk@atlas.com) Software Engineer, ADC
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