> I originally found this under 2.2.19, and upgraded to 2.4.13 to see if
> the problem was still there when running more recent code. It is.
> mt -f $TAPE rewind
> echo "tape 1" | dd conv=sync of=$TAPE bs=$hsize count=1
>
> for x in 1 2 3; do
> mt -f $TAPE rewind
> dd if=$TAPE of=/dev/null bs=$hsize
> date
> tar -c -b 20 -f $TAPE /boot
> done
Try "mt fsf" instead dd, see if that helps.
-- Pete
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