Re: Magnetic tape tools

2008-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 15:25, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > It > took over an hour to get to filemark 116 and all night to extract 6500 > files. Much slower than on My Linux boxes ( which are not an option > in this case). I haven't had to deal with MT in a long time, is there > a way to speed this up? Could I Mi

Magnetic tape tools

2008-11-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I found a need to read Tar Archives from a LTO 4 tape and only had a Vista Box to do it. After messing around with SFU, gnu-tar etc I installed Cygwin and As expected, was able to mt to filemark 117 and begin extraction (/dev/nst0). Which was better than I could do with any other tool, the P