Exabyte on Personal Iris

[John H Merritt]

In article <9815 at odin.corp.sgi.com> olson at anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

[Discussion of 8mm on PI]

>
>If you have 3.2, there may be problems putting multiple archives on the
>same tape if you use bru or tar (it will sometimes rewind when it
>shouldn't, overwriting your earlier archives).  This problem is fixed
>in 3.3
I'm running 3.2 and my solution is:

   tar cBf - file | dd of=/dev/nr8mm bs=10240

I let dd handle writing and reading of the device and I position with
'mt' commands.


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