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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape? Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 08:25:50 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL Lines: 30 Message-ID: <56472e$ft9@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <DzHp5B.6Bt.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <BZOzHFO.smartsignal@delphi.com> <55lovg$hs0@baygull.rtd.com> <55mshd$5oi@newsbr.eunet.fr> <55u1fv$cgg@baygull.rtd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) wrote: >In article <55mshd$5oi@newsbr.eunet.fr>, >Frederic MARAND <Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr> wrote: >>By the way, would anyone know why a DLT is much slower than a DAT >>using TAPEDAI.NLM on a NetWare 4.10 server ? It speeds properly with >>Seagate's Storage Manager driver, but only gives about 100 kB/s with >>the NetWare driver ! Some customers are interested by the performance numbers of the DLT, but don't want to buy an expensive product like Storage Manager. By the way, does someone have any performance numbers for DLTs under *BSD ? >>I know this is not a Netware forum, but I found none, and Novell's >>only answer is: this is an unsupported drive and it does not emulate a >>standard SCSI tape very successfully. How is it supported on FreeBSD ? >>Any specific changes to the standard SCSI tape driver ? >If this is a significant issue/problem for you, perhaps try loading >a different set of DLT firmware -- one of the variants that more closely >resembles a DAT, etc. (?) Thanks for the idea. Do you know where I could find one, if it exists ? My DLT wholesaler knows nothing of this, and only offers to take back the drives... ------------------------- Frederic G. MARAND Agorus SA / OSI SARL Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr -------------------------