1/2" tape cleaners?

[Doc Shipley]

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:11:33PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote:
> 
>>  Linux has the Unix-standard mt command, too, which allows setting the 
>>blocksize the system device uses, either explicitly or to a variable 
>>blocksize.
> 
> 
> Ah... I have never used that facet of 'mt' before (but I use mt on Linux
> all the time, practically daily, with our SDLTs).

   It's amazing how much faster a DLT4000 runs when you set the 
blocksize to 0 (variable - allows the tape drive to set it and the app 
to override) instead of 512 bytes.  :)


	Doc