> > > be enough to keep the tape streaming, IMHO..
> > 
> > what blocks does "buffer" program use?
> 
> 10k (which the man page says is the block size used by tar).
try 32k on both tar and buffr. but it should not make SUCH difference.
> > try setting blocks to 0 (mt setblk 0) and set 32kB output block size in
> > "buffer". i do not use buffer no i don't know what's the options
> 
> mt status already reports "blocksize: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0)".  I'm now running
> buffer with bs of 32k.  Network load is about 450K/s which means the
> larger block size does not help.  This DDS-2 drive should be about twice
> this fast if everything was ok.

DDS-2 should give 500kB/s uncompressed speed. compressed differs frm data
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