Re: Slow tape performance

[Jeffrey B. Siegal]

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Check all cables and termination

Cables should be fine.  The tape drive is the only device on the bus, and I'm
using an separate active terminator (the drive itself doesn't do termination).

> maybe you also need to clean the tape drive.

Tried that.  No change.

> Also try turning off DAT compression, and try tu use just cat
> to transfer the data.  Maybe try to build your own kernel,
> if all the above fails.

Good suggestions.  I will try these.