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Re: fms & DAT drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey J. Carpenter)
Tue Apr 23 18:43:32 1991

Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 14:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeffrey J. Carpenter" <jjc+@cis.pitt.edu>
To: info-afs@transarc.com, bgp@ecoult.ncsu.edu
In-Reply-To: <9104221517.AA01400@ecoult>

Excerpts from mail: 22-Apr-91 fms & DAT drive bgp@ecoult.ncsu.edu (811)


> Hi,
>    Have any one tried running 'fms' on a DAT tape drive before?
> I have a DECsystem/3100 running Ultrix 4.1 (w/ the DAT patch)
> and AFS 3.1 release.  After the first scan, 'fms' reported

> wrote block: 79765
> Finished data capacity test - rewinding

>    The first scane finished in a reasonable amount of time.
>    'fms' is now going through the second scan and it is taking
> forever.  I stopped it twice thinking that it had died.  At the
> moment, after running for approximately 18 hours, the second
> 'fms' scan produced



We tried it with the same configuration and it took about 40 hours to complete!


	jeff




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