Tar -tav takes 3 hours to complete

From: Alex North (no.email_at_kill_the_spammers.com)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC)

I am testing a new backup script and after completion of the backup (1.5 Gig
to /dev/rmt0) with no errors, I attempted to check the contents of the tar
file on the tape with tar -tav /dev/rmt0 the command proceeded normally but
took 3 hours to complete. From looking at the tape drive, it appeared that
it read the entire tape rather than a file catalog. Is this normal, and if
so is there a better way to do this?

(AIX 4.3 on a Bull Escala Processor )

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