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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