Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
Date: Wed Jan 14 03:13:32 2004

---- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
> 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!
>
You are probably speaking of SCSI disks. I talk about streamers. I have seen
some funny formats on streamers, but those were QIC-02 and similar.
Nico
Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 03:13:32 GMT