Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Wed Jan 14 03:42:28 2004

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Nico de Jong wrote:
> ---- 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.

Oh... sorry... yes... you said "SCSI drives" and I didn't pick up "tape
drives" from that.

-ethan

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