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From: peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Archive Tapes
Message-ID: <1990May3.133709.386@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 3 May 90 13:37:09 GMT
References: <29490@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Peter Radig EDV-Beratung, Frankfurt, West Germany
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Dante_A_Nicolello@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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