writing to tapes

[Ben Pfaff]

Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlcnet.org> writes:

> 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.

I'm not aware that the block size makes a difference for DDS
media.  At least I've never seen anyone recommend particular
block sizes.  I usually stick with the default, or use 0
(variable length blocks).

If you do find out information on this, please pass it along.