Re: Very slow SCSI tape drive with cygwin/Win2kPro

2004-09-02 Thread Bill Nugent
On Friday 27 August 2004 08:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So you didn't look into the `mt status 3' output? I've marked it in > my original reply. It's the Windows driver value for the maximum > block size. That has nothing to do with Cygwin. I did but was not sure if that meant that it was a W

Re: Very slow SCSI tape drive with cygwin/Win2kPro

2004-08-27 Thread Bill Nugent
Hi Corinna, Setting tar's -b size up resulted in a radical increase. Still not streaming but real close and workable. Reading in a 100GB tape with 500MB to 1,500MB files should take about three or four hours instead of three weeks! I'm going to keep experimenting to see if I can get it to s

Very slow SCSI tape drive with cygwin/Win2kPro

2004-08-23 Thread Bill Nugent
Howdy, I am having problems with very slowing reading from an Ultrium 1 SCSI tape drive (100GB capacity). With the current version of cygwin (and older) the drive is reading less than 200KB/sec using tar, dd and cpio. The drive is capable of reading 16MB/sec. There are no problems with Win2