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- From: jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu (James R. Saker Jr.)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD QIC-02 Driver with Wangtek 5150PK is sloooooow
- Message-ID: <jsaker.714361130@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1992Aug17.191318.8853@hotb.sub.org> <1992Aug19.051745.16119@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:38:50 GMT
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- dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
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- >The problem isn't the 512-byte blocks, per se, but that the controller doesn't
- >receive data quickly enough to allow the drive to stream properly. You can
- >get some performance improvement by buffering data in the driver and polling
- >the controller instead of waiting for interrupts and timeouts. Perhaps
- >someone could comment on why so many interrupts seem to get lost. I've
- >hacked wt.c to do buffering and polling to make the qic-02 drives usable, but
- >this isn't really the "right" solution. A couple of thoughts:
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- Would this explain why my tar -cvf /dev/rwt0 to my Wangtek QIC-150 drive
- produces unusual "features", including:
-
- o wildcard tarring writes only one file from each sequence,
- for example, tar -cvf /dev/rwt0 etc* with files etc01 to etc09,
- etc10 to etc19, etc20 to etc29 results in one file from etc0*,
- one file from etc1*, etc. (i.e. etc04, etc18, etc21, etc33 being
- the only ones written)
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- o tarring large files (esp. large tar.Z files) results in an
- end of tape not found error
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- o accessing floppies during tar operation results in errors
- in the floppy operation
-
- Tar has no problem reading from the unit - even sizable files written
- from another system to tape. And the files it does write to tape are
- reliable and hold their integrity.
-
- Any ideas/suggestions? While I'm on the podium, how about plans for
- EISA support eventually?;-)
-
- > -Dan
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