writing to tapes

Mark Szidik szidikm@mlcnet.org
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:05:52 -0500 (EST)


I am interested in maximizing throughput to tape.  Using dd or
tar I can adjust the size of blocks to to write to the tape, but
what is the optimum block size for a DDS tape?  Is it different
for DDS, DDS2, DD3 and DDS4?  I can't imagine that the disk's 512
Byte block size is the best size to write the the tape.

Anybody got ideas?

Thanks,
Mark Szidik