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From: peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: 6157-002 tape drive
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Date: 13 Nov 89 04:22:05 GMT
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In article <213600005@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, silver@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes...
> 
>I assume you mean for the standard tape drive, numbered 6157-002.
> 
>I've been using -C2000 (2000*512 byte = 1Meg size clusters) and the
>prformance in quite good.

Using:
      tar cvfC /dev/rmt0 2000 args...
yeilds:
     'tar: Cluster size reduced to 800'.

Am I doing something wrong?

Peter
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