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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 18:00:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE and Conner TR4 HyperQIC
Message-ID:  <199705292200.SAA22636@devsys.jaguNET.com>

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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.
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      Jim Jagielski            |       jaguNET Access Services
     jim@jaguNET.com           |       http://www.jaguNET.com/
                  "Not the Craw... the CRAW!"



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