From: Ted Rathkopf (rathkopf@cc.gatech.edu)
Date: 09/01/93 

From: rathkopf@cc.gatech.edu (Ted Rathkopf)
Subject: Re: Backup in Linux
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 14:39:12 GMT

** On 1 Sep 93 13:15:36 GMT, iks@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Bolski) said:

  Bolski> After that, tar stops and doesn't prompt me to insert the
  Bolski> next disk. I want this to span floppies.

  Bolski> The command I use is:

  Bolski> tar cvf /devfd1H1440 /

try using the M option too:

(from tar --help)
-M, --multi-volume create/list/extract multi-volume archive