I figured it out the problem. Here it is for everybody's information:
I was trying
mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 512
and it didn't work. I made a symbolic link from /dev/tape --> /dev/nst0
ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape
and then used
mt setblk 512
and it worked.
Now "mt status" shows the correct block size.
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:01:38 Waseem Wahid wrote:
>I am trying to use the setblk option of mt to set the block size for a DDS-3 (12/24
>GB) tape drive, but it doesn't seem to be taking effect. I want to set the block size
>to 512, but it always shows 0 when I do a status on it. I am running
>
>RedHat Linux (5.2) kernel 2.0.36
>mt version 0.5
>The machine is a Compaq Proliant 800 and it uses an NCR scsi controller.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
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