Efficient tape I/O with 386/ix; How??

[Paul De Bra]

In article <317 at focsys.UUCP> larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:
]Streaming tape I/O with 386/ix seems to be rather slow.  The drive
]is not streaming very well.  It spends most of it's time stopping
]and starting.  I'm using an Everex Excel 60 with a long controller
]card. 
]
]The command I've used is
]	find . -print | cpio -ovc >/dev/rmt0
]
A solution which also works for other applications is to use "cat":

	find . -print | cpio -ovc | cat | cat > /dev/rmt0

Hope this helps.

Paul.
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