On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:

> 
> Unfortunatly, the TK50Z won't accept 512K as a block size (for reads
> or writes). IIRC 32K is the biggest....
> 

  The TZ30 also won't accept record sizes > 32K.

  I usually do:  dd if=/dev/rst0 bs=32k count=1 of=/dev/null.  That's
simpler than writing a program when I know the tape doesn't have varying
record sizes.  For drives other then the TZ30/TK50Z, you should be able to
use a blocksize > 32K.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA