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Re: tar &tapes
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Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:06:00 +0100
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Michael D. Hensley wrote:
> Did you do a
> :mknod "/dev/tape c 0 n"
> This is in the MPE/iX 5.0 Installation Manual.

Another thing to check might be the blocksize parameter
for tar. The last time I tried it (5.0 Pull days) it was
really slow until I specified a blocksize of 20 (AFAIR),
which appeared to be the HP-UX standard/default.

Goetz.

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