Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!mit-kermit.UUCP!krowitz From: krowitz@mit-kermit.UUCP (David Krowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Here's one for you hardware types ... Message-ID: <8707081718.AA16023@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 13:00:37 EDT Article-I.D.: EDDIE.8707081718.AA16023 Posted: Wed Jul 8 13:00:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 05:50:29 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 15 Maybe I'm just hallucinating ... but it seems that our DN3000-C7's get much slower (and I mean *slow* like a snail) when reading a cartridge tape with RBAK than they do when writing a cartridge tape with WBAK. I can understand why a DN5xx would get slow, since the disk and tape controller are the one and the same, but the DN3000 has seperate controllers for each device. What is going on here? -- David Krowitz mit-erl!mit-kermit!krowitz@eddie.mit.edu mit-erl!mit-kermit!krowitz@mit-eddie.arpa krowitz@mit-mc.arpa (in order of decreasing preference)