486 computers and Unix

[Christian Seyb]

In <2864 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  Say what you will, the SCO driver keeps the tape streaming, the
>standard v.3.2 drivers don't. However, the SCO SCSI drivers have not

The reason for this is not the Driver itself.
Get a copy of the GNU tar. I usually do backups with the following
command line.

tar -l -b 100 -cf /dev/ct usr

The -l option tells GNU tar to only backup one filesystem.
The -b 100 option tells GNU tar to allocat 100 x 512 Byte Buffers.
Now the streamer does what his name says - It streams.

regards Christian
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