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| Subject: | Re: Problems with DAT tape.... |
| From: | Andrew Klaassen <ak@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:27:02 -0400 |
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:37:05AM +1100, Timothy Shimmin wrote: > I would recommend just putting the scsi tape driver into > variable block sized mode. > > # mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0 We've found that doing this on certain tape drives - especially when you're trying to read the data back - can lead to pretty significant slowdowns. So you might want to do a little testing in your particular environment before you go ahead and do this... Andrew Klaassen |
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