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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 problems Date: 2 Jul 1996 21:00:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4rc2m4$d17@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rb25f$9nd@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E forkin@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Christopher Forkin) wrote: > tar/dump/mt work as expected apart from the fact that the streamer doesn't > stream the data onto the tape but seams to write something rewind the tape > check the data and write the next bit and so on. In other words when I write > something on the tape the streamer drives me up the wall by constantly > winding the tape back and forth :( Increase the block size. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)