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- From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Colorado and Sytos - Round #2
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 11:19:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <19930102161053.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> <1993Jan3.071704.22514@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1993Jan3.071704.22514@digi.lonestar.org> kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
- >In article <19930102161053.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
- >>Well, I went back to the README file for Sytos, and guess what? I just
- >>wasn't patient enough :-) It takes 40 minutes to format a tape (DC2000)!
- >>I guess they do one byte per pass of the tape. Anyway, after the tape
- >>formatted, I backed up a partition which has 12.5M of data on it. It
- >>took about 6 min, and the compare afterward *said* the backup was good.
- >>I haven't actually tried a restore yet, though.
- >
- >There are lots of tracks on the tape. Each pass is formatting a different
- >track. Alternate tracks should be being formatted in the reverse direction.
- >I doubt that the tape is rewinding. If the software is only formatting each
- >track in the forward direction, it is poorly written.
- >
- >The CMS DOS software on Jumbo 120 takes 55 minutes to format a DC2120 tape,
- >provided it has no bad spots on the tape. If the software has to make some
- >blocks as bad, it will take even longer.
- >--
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- >Kevin Gallagher kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org OR ...!uunet!digi!kgallagh
- >DSC Communications Corporation Addr: MS 152, 1000 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075
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- It takes me 40 minutes to format (and verify) a DC2000 tape on my tape
- drive, and that's ussing any different tape program (Norton's, or Mountain's
- tape program).
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