RS/6000 AIX release tape format
karish at mindcrf.UUCP
karish at mindcrf.UUCP
Wed Aug 8 08:41:45 AEST 1990
In article <1990Aug7.172615.19203 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> shair at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
(Bob Shair) writes:
>The IBM Support Center gave the U of Illinois the following
>instructions for copying a stacked tape:
>
>1. Change the tape device to the correct blocking:
> chdev -l rmt0 -a block_size=512
^^^
0 (variable block size) may be a better choice here. One of the
problems we had here with the 9021 upgrade was that the default block
size for our 1/2" tape drive was 1024. The drive wouldn't read
existing tapes correctly until I changed this to 0.
--
Chuck Karish karish at mindcraft.com
Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000
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