thought sending output from arecord to tape drive would work, but it doesn't

[Brent Harding]

Oh, I suppose CD burners are like that too, at least mine, the instructions
say it needs a constant stream of data coming to it via the USB port, so
recording live might not work, if I let too much silence get in. I wonder
if buffering programs might work?
gfor say "arecord | dd bs=1K of=/dev/tape"
At 01:30 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Brent,
>
>A tape drive is not just like a disk drive. It requires data at a constant
>rate. If you vary the rate, you don't get good results. It works fine for
>backing up as intended. It won't work for what you are trying.
>
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