Re: Need help with allocating a 2M buffer size

2001-03-15 Thread Kai Makisara
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > I have a real picky tape drive (DLT series) that likes to be fed large chunks > of data at once, otherwise after every 2-4KB of data it halts and rewinds > itself because its cache for writing to the tape is empty. > > My best solution to this problem

Re: Need help with allocating a 2M buffer size

2001-03-15 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > I have a real picky tape drive (DLT series) that likes to be fed large chunks > of data at once, otherwise after every 2-4KB of data it halts and rewinds > itself because its cache for writing to the tape is empty. > > My best solution to this proble

Need help with allocating a 2M buffer size

2001-03-15 Thread Byron Stanoszek
I have a real picky tape drive (DLT series) that likes to be fed large chunks of data at once, otherwise after every 2-4KB of data it halts and rewinds itself because its cache for writing to the tape is empty. My best solution to this problem was to use 'tar -b 4096', which sends 4096 x 512-byte