Re: View Archive Tapes
Con Woodall <cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu> wrote :
>
> This is for Online 7.
> Assuming tbtape will do what ontape does-and that might be a a poor
> idea-you can get an identifier of an archive tape with:
>
> dd if=<device> of=<filename> bs=5120 count=10
>
> od -c <filename>
>
[ snip...]
> >
> >
>
>
Hi :
Looks like my brain cells needs caffeine to be activated after the
long weekend.
Why does the bs have to be 5120 ?
Can the value of bs argument be the same as TAPEBLK value in TBCONFIG
file ?
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