My original query: 
   Got a 8mm DAT with a tar archive created on IBM AIX. Exracting this data on 
to a SS4 is very slow. 'truss' output shows thst each 'read' call returns only 
512 bytes even when the requested block size is more (10240 or 32768). 
 
Conclusion: 
  The tape has been written using 512-byte block size. There is nothing much I 
can do about it. I can only suggest the person who created the tape-archive to 
use a bigger block size next time. 
 
  
My thanks to: 
 Brian Sherwood <sherwood@alux4.micro.lucent.com>  
 Jeffrey S. Jewett <spider@umd5.umd.edu> 
 Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@tux.org> 
 
 
-Thanks, 
 Ravi. 
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K.Ravi,                                 | Opinions expressed here are my own  
IPEC/DDR, Oracle Software India Ltd.    | and do not necessarily represent  
Bangalore - 560 001.                    | those of Oracle Corporation. 
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