Re: AVg Tape Write Rate

Douglas Bollinger <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:53:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tape
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:10:18 +0930
Pete <[email protected]> wrote:

> I always expected tape backup to be slow, so I never thought about
> that... anyone getting faster results?

I have a TR3 tape drive hooked-up to the floppy port.  While it's certainly
not speedy, I don't think it's this slow.

Can someone provide an easy way to benchmark tape drive performance using
common unix tools?

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