I will have a tape I can do that with later today.

Thanks,
  Frank

On 10/13/10 3:04 PM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
> Strange. Do you have a tape on hand where you can overwrite the data on it? 
> If so, put it in a tape drive and tar a file to it and see how long it takes. 
> Use a file that's a decent size and time it as in

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