> I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650
> system [...]
> The problem I see is that data flow is not steadily streaming; the tape
> drive is operating in start-stop-mode.

I use team(1) (/usr/ports/misc/team) to bufferize the acces to a tape
drive, in a command like:

tar cf - /mydisk | team 1m 16 >/dev/tape_drive

It usually does the trick.

Olivier
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