From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 15:00:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12293 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 15:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devsys.jaguNET.com (devsys.jaguNET.com [206.156.208.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12280 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.8.5/jag-2.4) id SAA22636 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 May 1997 18:00:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199705292200.SAA22636@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE and Conner TR4 HyperQIC To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:00:08 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: jim@jaguNET.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Awhile ago I had posted that I would test out a new Conner HyperQIC/ Travan4 tape SCSI tape drive under FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE. I installed it on Monday and have spent the last few days putting it through it's paces. It was tested on a Adaptec 2940 and 1522B. The Good News: It works solidly and reliably with no changes required to the kernel. The Bad News: It ain't that fast. I can easily get about 400KB/s doing local dumps to a DAT drive, with the HyperQIC the best I can do is about half of that. It's also a bit disconcerting going back to QIC-like tape behavior with it's restarts and retensioning, etc.. However, the unit itself is cheap (about $400) and solid as an ox. -- ==================================================================== Jim Jagielski | jaguNET Access Services jim@jaguNET.com | http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Not the Craw... the CRAW!"