On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote:
It's amazing how much faster a DLT4000 runs when
you set the
blocksize to 0 (variable - allows the tape drive to set it and the app
to override) instead of 512 bytes. :)
Ooh! Nice! I may have to fiddle with that (I'm making personal backups
on some DLT drive of that vintage)
-ethan
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