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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Transfer Rate of 8mm tape drive
- Message-ID: <2811@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:53:36 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.195650.23475@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <nih9l4o@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <nih9l4o@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Jul20.195650.23475@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> mcquay@ame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Keith McQuay) writes:
- >
- >| I have been requested to provide some information
- >| concerning the transfer rate of data from an
- >| 8mm tape drive (SCSI) on an SGI 4D/340VGX to
- >| a disk. I also need to get information on the
- >
- >The Exabyte drive is rated at 240 Kbytes/sec sustained,
- >and I've actually gotten pretty close to that; it depends
- >on how you are writing the tape, or what you are doing with
- >the data you read.
- >
- I had some questions like you have. Try this.
- Run dd from zero with a 1mb blocksize, and time it, like
-
- time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tape bs=1024k
-
- When this finishes, it will give you the time taken, and the number
- of megabytes written. Its straight division from there on out.
-
- You can make a shell script to try a great many sizes one night, and
- summarize it one one page.
-
- Works great for DAT, QIC and GRC drives, too. On SGI, you also can use
- this ( only once ) to check the write speed without the filesystem for
- hard and floppy drives, being careful to choose device names correctly.
-
- Have fun.
-
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