1/2" tape cleaners?

[Doc Shipley]

Ethan Dicks wrote:

>> Are there good Linux packages for dealing with foreign
>>tapes, such as handling variable block sizes?
> 
> 
> dd will handle variable block sizes on a per-tape-file basis.  I'm sure
> there are other utilities that can as well.

   Linux has the Unix-standard mt command, too, which allows setting the 
blocksize the system device uses, either explicitly or to a variable 
blocksize.


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