ktelep@gmail.com wrote:
> I've recieved an LTO3 tape of data from a customer that's been written
> with tar, I've determined the block size on the tape is 10240. (Which I
> find quite odd.....)

How did you determin this block size? Were you just looking
at the boundry for the fist block? If so you may be guessing
wrong, since there's also the chance of the tape being written
with variable block size.

Regards,

Frank