24 Oct
2004
24 Oct
'04
10:58 a.m.
At 03:41 PM 10/24/2004, 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. :)
Really? Why? Is that true on my DLT 35/70s?
At 03:11 PM 10/24/2004, der Mouse wrote:
My own favourite is copytape, which works well with
tape drives that
fit the Unix model of stream-of-tape-blocks.
Ah, yes, that's the util I was thinking of.
If I did around, I can find the 'tar' and 'mt' for ASPI under DOS
that I used for years, that worked reasonably well.
- John