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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3090 tape driver ??(Re: BTN 2.0 Tape handler)
Summary: Reading UNIX tar tapes w/Amiga tar
Keywords: TAR, BTN, A3000, A3090
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.003445.10452@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:34:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.014520.13657@sugar.hackercorp.com> <5692@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <5692@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai) writes:
> 
> BTW, does anybody have working experience of TAR to exchange data with UNIX ?
> I have no idea what is the most appropriate block size, as A3090 has nothing
> technical on its booklet. Is there any preferred block size for each UNIX ?
> 
 Haven't tried going the other way, but I *can* read tapes created on my
Unix (ICM-3216) system without problems (other than the aforementioned
lockups) using Amiga tar and BTNTape 2.0.  Interestingly if I slow the
operations down (for example "type tape: opt h"), the lockups don't happen
and I can see the ASCII portions of the Unix files (e.g. man pages) dumped
correctly.  My problems all seem to be timing related :(
  
   Scott Denham 
   ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com