Re: VOLHDR or something

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:13:23 +0100

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"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> dd if=$TAPE bs=500b count=1 of=/tmp/sdd.$$ 2> /dev/null
> >> Zaglavlje=`star -tv f=/tmp/sdd.6808 2> /dev/null | grep "Volume
> >> Header" | awk '{print $9}'`
> >
> > Why do you use a completely unsuitable blocksize although my script
> > was OK?
>
> Based on my empirical experience I find out that using block size 500x512 
> and FIFO 8m gives the best results on my suse 9.3 prof. server. I wrote 
> about that before, but you never answered.

OK, I did not see the 'b'.



Jörg

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