Subject: Re: Sony STG-700- SCSI-2 tape drive
To: Ioan Nemes <inemes@transylvania.com.au>
From: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/25/2001 08:02:18 
> 
> Thanks for everybody who responded, hope somebody
> eventually will explain to me why I can't use cpio
> with this tape drive.  I sent back the tape drive

you CAN. just set blocking option in cpio to something like 32kB, and use
rst0.