Hi,

I'm using a HP SureStore Tape 2000. But I think the performance is very poor
(40 kB/s for writing or 14 hours for a 2 GB tape). Is this normal?
(dmesg-Output attached...)

And is it normal that the drive wants to be cleaned daily??

Regards

Felix Deichmann

---- dmesg ----

NetBSD 1.5.2 (felix) #2: Tue Jan 18 01:04:16 CET 2022
[...]
Alpha PC AXPpci33, 166MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 65536 KB
(2024 KB reserved for PROM, 63512 KB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 56792 KB
using 409 buffers containing 3272 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), LCA-2 (21066 pass 2)
lca0 at mainbus0
pci0 at lca0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
ncr0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi
ncr0: interrupting at isa irq 11
ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x0484 (rev. 0x03)
rtk0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX
rtk0: interrupting at isa irq 5
rtk0: Ethernet address 00:50:bf:05:a9:e5
ukphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vga0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: vendor 0x102b product 0x0519 (rev. 0x01)
wsdisplay0 at vga0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
de0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0
de0: interrupting at isa irq 10
de0: ZNYX ZX312 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de0: address 00:c0:95:ec:51:bd
isa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
isabeep0 at pcppi0
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
de0: enabling 10baseT port
sd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <IBM, DORS-32160, WA6A> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0(ncr0:2:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
sd0: 2063 MB, 6703 cyl, 5 head, 126 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4226725 sectors
st0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <HP, HP35470A, T503> SCSI2 1/sequential
removable
st0: st0(ncr0:5:0): 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
drive empty
[...]

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