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The DAT engineer said: "The bigger the better." Via HPFOPEN, MPE supports a 16K buffer, which is ok for DATs. STORE/RESTORE can go up to 32K. The basic criteria is to keep the tape streaming.

--RickEhrhart?

Yes! For DAT, the bigger the better. 32K will be good! Particularly for the compression drives, small blocks do not compress efficiently.

--Sts?

-- ChrisBartram - 17 May 2006



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