Hello, I'm running RH8 with a Compaq 20/40 external DLT drive. I can read/write from the drive just fine. I've noticed when I write to the drive using tar, the tape will write, then backup a bit, then write again. This process keeps repeating until tar is finished. If I use something like taper, it just streams until the backup is finished. I think I read someplace that the default block size tar uses is wrong. How do I figure out what block size I need to use? I can't find anything in the compaq documentation that mentions block size. Thanks -- Chris Sechiatano chris@xxxxxxxxxxx www.chris-s.com PGP Key 0x0021EFA0
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