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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!no.such.domain!bill From: bill@no.such.domain (Bill Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 hoses 2.1R Date: 25 Mar 1996 16:28:03 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4j6hij$htl@news.scruz.net> References: <315227E3.67B6250D@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.159.64 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] jamont (jamont@netcom.com) wrote: : I've got an Exabyte 8200 8mm drive on my 2.1R system, attached to an Asus NCR-810 controller. When I : try to tar multiple files to tape, my system hangs. Reading works ok. Can anyone suggest a fix? : John Montgomery Back when I was running BSD/OS, I had a similar problem with an Exabyte 82xx 8mm tape backup drive; it would hang on output. If I remember corrrectly, input was o.k. Since then, under BSD/OS *and* FreeBSD, I've always piped the output of tar into dd like this: su <password> cd / tar cvf - . | dd bs=1474560 of=/dev/rst0 The buffer size happens to hold exactly one 1.44M floppy, but I think any large buffer would do. Haven't had a hangup since (about 4 years now). -- Bill Cox Software Janitor Giving power and money to politicians is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers. P.J. O'Rourke Raise taxes to cover the deficit? Are you *crazy*??