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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Motherboard doesn't like tape drive
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> John Fieber stands accused of saying:
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > 
> > > 	the problem may be that the tape is straved for data, so it stops 
> > > 	writing and has to seek before starting to write again.
> > 
> > Then I would think that dd'ing /dev/zero to the tape would keep
> > it streaming, but it won't.  :(
> 
> That might happen if it gets its data out to the tape before your
> system has got back to it with more. 8(

Why might this happen on Pentium 100 with a PCI SCSI controller
where my crusty old 486 with an ISA SCSI controller could keep
the drive well fed?

Inquiring minds want to know.  :)

Well, I'll probably worry about this problem (again) in another
month or so when its time for another full backup. 

-john