Bill R. Williams wrote: >Hi Peter, > >I'm guessing that you need a 'bs=' on the dd. >Apparently, 'dd' has some internal default for the buffer it will use >if you do not specify [io]bs. Since you are reading from tape and >writing to disk, the 'bs=' only matters to the 'dd' for buffering >purposes. Pick the biggest number you think you'll need for a tape >block. (The biggest blocksize the tape can have.) > >Most likely this'll do it: >dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn of=/SOMEWHERE/taped.flar bs=128k > > > Thanks Bill, setting the block size did the trick. Peter _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jul 7 14:42:31 2004
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