Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Wed Jan 14 02:38:25 2004

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:25:09AM +0100, Nico de Jong wrote:
> Correct. I cant remember ever having seen SCSI drives with block sizes
> different from 512 bytes.

I have some 4GB drives that were once 524 bytes-per-block. A couple of
hours with an AHA1542 and its low-level formatting firmware fixed that!

-ethan

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