[2138] in linux-scsi channel archive
Tape writing s-l-o-w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr M S Aitchison)
Thu Jul 10 22:03:27 1997
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:49:44 +1200
From: physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
A 66MHz 486 running Linux with a T130 card and DAT tape is very slow
writing a tape (about 10Mb/minute) using simple things like tar. Yet
the same card and tape with a Pentium running Win95 and arcadia
software gets a decent speed.
I would have thought that the 486 would have enough speed to keep the
tape streaming, even with a SCSI card like this. Could there be
something wrong with the software setup, or do we have to upgrade some
hardware? (It would be a nuisance installing Linux on the Pentium, or
upgrading the 486 just in case that will fix it). Has anybody got a
combination like this running smoothly??
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