What are optimal SCSI tape blocksizes?
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at vsi.COM
Sun Jan 29 18:15:50 AEST 1989
Hi folks,
We just installed a 60mb SCSI cartridge tape drive on our
3B2/400 -- oh happy day -- and wish to tune our backup scripts to
run as fast as possible. Does anybody know the optimal block
sizes for cpio on these devices? An "optimal" response would
include a matrix of blocksizes for 60 and 120mb tape on the /400
and /600 (assuming there is a difference in the latter). For the
time being, we're using 5120-byte blocks...
Please email, I'll summarize & post.
Steve
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