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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:51:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quantum tape drive
Message-ID:  <20090128225115.G25826@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0901281238u4f1a1ddo400407115e6491f2@mail.gmail.com>
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>> misc/buffer, and misc/cstream in ports are good for this.
>
> Thanks.  Would this decrease the ability of other Unixes being able to
> read the tape?  For example, using pax (which can read tar archives)
> or GNU's tar?

no just use -b in other unices too :)

> When reading from the tape using tar (bsdtar from FreeBSD 6.2 -- and,
> yes, I'm preparing a cvsup as I write this :) ) the tape drive's Alarm
> and Fault LEDs are lit up and then camcontrol devlist no longer shows
> the tape drive.

TERMINATION PROBLEM



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