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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: BTNTape driver
- Message-ID: <aomvr*uP0@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 05:55:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.082256.5045@ericsson.se>
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- In article <1992Aug12.082256.5045@ericsson.se>, Per Nilsson writes:
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- > I've connected a tape drive to my Amiga 3000, the drive is supposed
- > to be a 150M drive. But when I try to write to it by using BTNTape and
- > gnutar, only 60M is written before I'm asked to insert the next volume.
- > Do I have to initialize the tape for 150M storage before I write to it ?
- > The tapedrive used to sit in a SUN server if it's any help.
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- Two questions:
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- 1. Are you sure that you are using the 6150 tapes?
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- 2. Is the tape drive streaming most of the time? If not, it can waste up
- to half the tape by doubling blocks. If the tape stops too much, try
- increasing the number of blocks used in the mountlist.
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- I hope this helps...
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- Jim Pritchett
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