On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, David Laight wrote:

>
> I've copied QIC150 tapes using a loop of dd commands - you have to stop
> when you get a zero sized file - or else you get an infinite number of
> them.

I agree, I saw the same problem and fixed it the same way (stop when 
seeing zero length). I did not try to set 'early eom detection' (see st 
and mt manuals). Maybe setting this would fix it. This has to be tried.

thanks,
Peter