Date: 08/29/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: linux

Is there a common utility for Windows that allows someone to set the blocksize of a drive and format that scsi tape in a particular blocksize? For instance, in Linux I would use:

mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 1024

To set the blocksize of the drive to 1024.

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /etc/hosts -b 2

This would write a file to the tape in the drive and force a 1024 blocksize.

Is there something similar in Windows that does this. Like a command in ntbackup? I'm looking for a solution that would be common to all Windows systems.

Thanks in advance

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