From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Dec 29 00:26:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA17991 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (root@revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA17979 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@3-cities.com) Received: from mark (bigtca710.3-cities.com [204.203.232.43]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA29662 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:20:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34A75A25.46BD@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:07:01 -0800 From: Mark Smith Reply-To: msmith@3-cities.com Organization: Organization? What's that?!? X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DAT question/problem! References: <34A3530D.590@3-cities.com> <19971226162002.29967@uriah.heep.sax.de> <34A49B87.6C60@3-cities.com> <19971227092711.09423@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > This is REAL fun testing this kind of code on a 90m tape on an > > older DDS-1 10M/min drive! 200 minutes (3 hours 20 min) write > > then the same for a read. > > Ain't a new cassette cheaper than 6 hours of work? ;-) Well, when I have access to about a dozen DDS-1 DAT drives, I'll just slap a tape in each one, kick of the verify in the morning and do it again before I go home. A grand total of 15 minutes actual work. Mark