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Re: Linux 4mm SCSI DAT Drive Settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Nov 29 06:38:57 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:11:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Reply-To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Popov <popov@ix.netcom.com>
cc: Martin Gallant <martyg@wired.ml.org>, amanda-users@amanda.org,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <365FB2CE.C0461427@ix.netcom.com>
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Popov wrote:
> As far as I know, all DAT drives support both, variable and fixed block
> modes.
But if you plan to move tapes between multiple drives, you might find that
some drives handle larger block sizes than others, and variable size
blocks written by one may not be readable by all. When this used to be an
issue for me, I used 8kb blocks.
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