Archive Tapes

Peter Radig peter at orfeo.radig.de
Thu May 3 23:37:09 AEST 1990


Dante_A_Nicolello at cup.portal.com writes:
>I am having two problems with an Archive 60 meg Fastape.
>My setup:
>        25mhz 80386 w/cache
>        isc/386/ix 2.02
>        Adaptec SCSI adapter w/ scsi HD
>Problem one:
>        Tape does not stream.

Use the GNU tar with a appropiate blocking factor (I use -b2000, i.e.
1 MB buffer).

Peter
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