Quantum tape drive

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> misc/buffer, and misc/cstream in ports are good for this.
>
> Thanks.  Would this decrease the ability of other Unixes being able to
> read the tape?  For example, using pax (which can read tar archives)
> or GNU's tar?

no just use -b in other unices too :)

> When reading from the tape using tar (bsdtar from FreeBSD 6.2 -- and,
> yes, I'm preparing a cvsup as I write this :) ) the tape drive's Alarm
> and Fault LEDs are lit up and then camcontrol devlist no longer shows
> the tape drive.

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