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- From: olek@hpuosla.norway.hp.com (Ole Kristian Foss)
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:04:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: What is the default blocksize on HP DAT tapes ?
- Message-ID: <2030005@hpuosla.norway.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Oslo Norway
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- >I'm writing 4mm DAT tapes on my Indigo, and reading them on HP's.
- >To get them to read on the HP, I have to set the blocksize to 256k
- >manually, since that is apparently the default blocksize for the
- >SGI, but the HP is something else. I would rather force the blocksize
- >on the SGI side, allowing the HP to read the tapes more easily. So,
- >what is the default blocksize for HP DAT tapes ?
- >
- >SGI:
- >
- >tar cvf - MYFILE | dd of=/dev/tape bs=?????
- >
- >HP:
- >
- >tar xvf /dev/rmt/0mn
- >
- Try (o)bs=10k
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- OleK
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