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From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: ft really slow?
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 04:15:30 GMT
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Hi,

I have been a user of the ft tape driver for a number of years.  Over
time I have swapped my tape drive between different motherboards and
controllers.  The drive has served me well (especially with the lft
utility instead of the standard ft driver) in general, however in 
the current configuration it is dead slow - It just took me 12 hours
to back up 200m of data, according to the manufacturers notes it 
should be able to do 1Mbit/second, which is around 30minutes.

What can I be doing wrong?  I have moved the tape driver over to a 
486-100 motherboard with onboard floppy-disk controller.  Should
I try using a stand-alone I/O card?

How can I measure/monitor the performance?  

Regards/Mark

PS Please copy any replies by email as I am going to be away for
a while and I wouldn't want your replies to expire..

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