I have a DLT IV drive that I cannot get to stream with amanda.  With a little 
bit of experimentation, I have found that it will stream with tar if I set the 
block size to 128KB.  However, amanda only seems to support block sizes of 
32kb.  The constant rewind/seek motion of the tape is rough on both the tape 
and the hardware (not to mention my ears if I'm still up when the backups kick 
off).

I seem to remember once upon a time that someone posted a patch that would 
allow amanda to run with larger block sizes.  However, now that yahoo deletes 
older postings I can't find it in the archives any more.

Does anyone have a fix for this?  Any ideas if changing this is even going to 
work on FreeBSD?  (my original testing was on my old Linux server)

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