Ansitape angst

[Dave Olson]

In <9102190812.AA12122 at karron.med.nyu.edu> Dan Karron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:


| I am reading some ansi tapes on a cypher 9 track tape. Performance
| is terrible. The tape drive saws back and forth, moving only an inch
| or so each cycle. How can I improve performance ? I tried using
| bstream, but ansitape won't read from standard input. How can
| I determine the proper blocking factor to use to match tape blocks
| with host blocking buffers ?
| 
| 
| This is agony! It is taking hours to read each tape!

Note that the default blocksize is only 2k.  You might try using a larger
block size, if that is appropriate.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.