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Tape Troubles

    29-Aug-92 01:15:22
Sb: #67653-Tape Troubles
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
I'm tantalizingly close. Using BTN, I can get Hue's 'tar' to write sometimes as many as 2500 blocks. I think it might be that this 'btn' TAPE: driver isn't up to snuff. It's good, but maybe this tape drive is too smart for its own good. It's got a 1M buffer on-board, and I think the hangs I'm seeing result at the moments when the buffer is full, tape motion starts, and the resulting SCSI disconnect / reconnect sequence…