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Re: Very slow SCSI tape drive with cygwin/Win2kPro


On Aug 24 12:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 23 18:40, Bill Nugent wrote:
> >  mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 8192
> >  tar -tf /dev/nst0 -b 32
> 
> tar --help, especially the -b option.

Uhm... sorry, scratch that.

> > Block size does not seem to be a factor.  I've tried 8k, 16k and 32k 
> > (over 32k doesn't work for some reason).

I've just tried reading and writing on a Tandberg SLR7 which has a max.
speed of 6 MB/s, using 5K blocks on tape.  My testcase was a directory
of 645 MB, full of source code (lots of small files).

Using 10K blocks (-b20) for tar, I got roughly 850 KB/s on write and
1.25 MB/s on read. 

Using 1000K blocks (-b2000), I got 1.4MB/s on write and nearly the full
6 MB/s on read.


Corinna

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