> I tried to write the kernel sources to disk with "tar cvMf /dev/fd0a src"
> today. After the first disk was full tar didn't ask for a second one but
> continued to write into nirvana.
> 
> Bug in tar or the floppy driver ?

Neither really. AFAIK tar has never worked for multi-volumes.

Sun wrote a thing called bar which allowed multi-volumes and compression
but I think they took it out when they did Solaris 2 !

Maybe GNU tar is supposed to do it but I wouldn't bet much money on it :-(

John