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- From: seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: What is the default blocksize on HP DAT tapes ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.164626.20738@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:46:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug31.164626.20738
- References: <BtLL1z.HI7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <p6se2ls@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <p6se2ls@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <BtLL1z.HI7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink) writes:
- ..on his Silicon Graphics Eric does this to try and read an HP DAT tape:]
- >| tar cvf - MYFILE | dd of=/dev/tape bs=?????
- ...and Dave asked:
- >My god, why would you do it like that! It complicates error
- >recovery/handling , eats up CPU resources, and is probably slower.
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- well, i can't answer why he does it on the SGI, but that's quite similar to
- the syntax HP recommended to me to read 8mm tapes on the HP 710 to avoid
- the write-zero-filemarks bug (ok, "hiccup")
- There are times when devices and programs seem to appreciate a mediator...
- --dick
-