Tape Drive Wanted
10-Jan-93 15:14:12
Sb: #84587-Tape Drive Wanted
Fm: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
To: Mark Sterling 74335,1677
Mark,
I am using Asynch transfer with a buffer of 256k on AmiBack working
with an IVS Trumpcard Pro SCSI controller. Yesterday I backed up 17 meg of
files and it took, according to AmiBack's timer, about 7 minutes. It
should take less time, but for some reason the IVS card's built-in drive
detection slows things down considerably. I think it would go faster if
the drive could support reselection or if the IVS software could set the
tape drive for reselection. The IVS scanning seems to slow things down
quite a bit. When I was running a Nexus controller the same backup would
have taken about 4 to 5 minutes. In either case, however, that's slower
than 6 meg/minute which I have only seen during a mirror backup.