Re: Problems with DAT tape....

[Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:27:02AM -0400, Andrew Klaassen wrote:
> 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...
> 
Thanks for the tip.

--Tim