Help with 4mm DAT tape Drive

[Eric D. Williams]

Greetings Programs!

  Does any one out there have any experience with the new 4mm DAT tape
  drives?  I just got a Wang DAT SCSI tape drive, and I'd like to know
  what the proper parameters to 'dump' are.  It's hooked up to a Sun
  4/65 running SunOS 4.1.

  The parameters I'm using now are:

% dump 0cbdsf 250 545000 197 /dev/rst0 /Ma

  But it is s*l*o*w!!  It's taking 6 hours to backup 500Mg.  That can't
  be right.  If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.  I'll
  summerize and post results.

Thanks in advance.
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     Eric D. Williams              "Time flies like an arrow,
     Cadence Design Systems         Fruitflies like bananas."
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