Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:30:24 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Backup Message-ID: <19971006153024.62498@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <199710061326.OAA04524@stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>; from Richard Tobin on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 02:26:12PM %2B0100 References: <199710061326.OAA04524@stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Richard Tobin writes:
>
> > > Is there any fix for that, like perhaps a humongous buffer? I figured,
> > > since the average data rate was 50KB/sec., and the hiccups averaged
> > > 4 seconds, I was buffering about 200KB. Can I buffer say, 10MB?
>
> You could write a trivial C program that buffered as much as you like.
Use team(1) ?
> HOWEVER, these Travan drives absolutely suck. I've had 3 replacements
> from HP in two weeks, and *NONE of them work*.
You bet.
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-- Phil
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