On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 at 3:59pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote

Wow...That's better:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] cron.d]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=2048k
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Great idea!  ;) (cf my previous email)

count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out

real    0m27.593s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.660s

speed is 75MB/s!

What a poor hardware configuration I have here....

Indeed. What *is* your SCSI config. In general, you probably want the tape drive at least on its own channel, if not its own card.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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