Subject: Re: TK50 - how much can i get onto one tape?
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@nhh.no>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/26/1998 20:15:08
> 
> I've been doing 'dump -b 32 -B 90000' here lately.  That is, 32KB
> records and 90000KB expected to fit on the tape.  This was after a
> 'dd bs=32k' that errored out after 92000KB.  On the other, hand, a
> test with 'dd bs=256kb' the other day bombed out after 88832KB; I
> don't know what to think of this.  Aren't all TK50s the same?
> 
Don't try to use blocksize > 63K; the uba code cannot use bigger blocksize.

-- Ragge