On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Charles Carroll wrote:

>       All,
> 
>       Interesting development, was able to dump 3.2Gb of raw data from SCSI 
> tape drive. Used the follow commands:
> 
> mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0  (this sets the blocksize of the tape drive to 
> variable on SCSI Tape drive Zero)
> 
> dd if=/dev/st0 of=(filename) bs=64k   (This reads the tape, and 
> buffers/writes it in 64k blocks.)
> 

Great - glad you solved the issue.  Sorry I wasn't much help, but at least
it will be archived in the list for the next person.

Stew Benedict

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