brian@apt.UUCP (Brian Litzinger) (07/01/89)
I have a 25Mhz 386 system running Interactive 386/ix Unix. I recently installed a Wangtec QIC-36 controller and tape unit. I also installed the wangtec driver that came with my Interactive Unix system. Unfortunately, it is unbelievably slow.... It works, just so slowly.......... Basically it seems to being going back and forth, back and forth advancing just a little bit each forth. I've used cat, cpio, and afio and it performs just as poorly no matter who supplies the data. What did I do wrong? Did I simply not spend enough money? This same controller in a Microport system is what I would call good and fast. On both systems I tried to take advantage of the Microport strm utility to speed things up.