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[ILUG] blocksize for a DLT drive?

[ILUG] blocksize for a DLT drive?

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Thu Dec 5 11:29:03 GMT 2002


On December 5, Diego.Leccardi at hp.com said:
> Hi Ronan,
> my suggestion is to set the bock size of the DLT to 1024 using the command:
> 
> mt -t /dev/st0 setblk 1024 <= it should improve the performance a lot
> 
> With the dd command you can use the option "bs=1024k".
> 
> Why you don't try Storix? http://www.storix.com/
> It's free for personal use and it will create a bootable cd in order to boot the box and restore the system. 
> 
> 	Diego

Hmm, sounds neat. Thanks for the pointer.

Cheers,
Waider.
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