[geeks] More Wangtek help

[Jochen Kunz]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:39:19 -0500
Tom Manos <pitlog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer, but it solves a different problem than the one I
> have. In my case, the SCSI tape driver does not know enough about my drive
> to properly stream it, so I was thinking about modifying the st
> configuration and building a new kernel.
As other people have pointed out already: The machine or the programm
you are using at the moment may not feed data fast enough. I found that
maketape.c does a quite good job feeding data to a tape to keep it
streaming. But sometimes it is enough to play with the bs=... parameter
to dd(1).
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