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Re: Linux 4mm SCSI DAT Drive Settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Sat Nov 28 04:23:29 1998
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 28 Nov 1998 10:02:53 +0100
Martin Gallant <martyg@wired.ml.org> wrote:
> Q1. By default, the system comes up with the driver configured in fixed
> block mode (512 bytes). Should I be setting the driver to variable
> block mode? (mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0) Will this impact
> interoperability with other drives if I ever need to move my tapes?
I do all my backups in variable block mode, but I ensure that I/O
is done with a big size, such as 32768. This is done for example,
with manual network backups, with:
dd bs=32768
This gives better performance (at least with SONY SDT-[579]000
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