Re: Rescuing a tape archive, understanding dd

From: Maury Markowitz (maury_markowitz_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/07/05 

Date: 7 Nov 2005 10:15:23 -0800

> I use BRU, and I can specify any block size I want. The manual
> says it uses 20KBytes by default, and perhaps it does. I use
> "64K". My tape drive (Exabyte VXA-2) has a 2MByte internal buffer.

What happens if I specify a block size that is larger than what was
used to write the tape? Zero-filled perhaps?

I guess my question is this: is there any way to determine the block
size, given the tape?

Maury

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