Tape Troubles
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…