> > I have a 133MHz Pentium system with an AHA-2940, a Fast SCSI disk and an
> > antique Archive Viper 2150S tape drive. If I do a level 0 dump of a
> > filesystem from the disk to a tape, it won't stream continuously for
> > more than a few seconds. I've tried winding up dump's "b" parameter to
> > 700-800 with no obvious effect. This is with NetBSD 1.2 or 1.3.
> 
> I'd try piping the data through "buffer" (an old version of which is in
> the packages collection) between the dump process and the tape device. 

Or try team, which is also in the packages collection.

pkgsrc/misc/team