Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
Date: Wed Jan 21 08:48:22 2004

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From: "Nico de Jong" <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
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Subject: Re: Odd PDP-11 tape related question


> >
> > This might be your problem.. even though the tape image is
> > fine, the drive doesnt let you use arbitrary block sizes.
> >
> > This may or may not apply to your drive.. Nico might know
> > more about this- I just ran into this when writing an ASPI
> > layer for my software... I was unable to tell the DDS drive
> > to switch to 64-byte blocks.. it insisted on 512-b blocks.
> >
> Correct. I cant remember ever having seen SCSI drives with block sizes
> different from 512 bytes.
> Despite my involvement in media conversion since 1986 or so, I have sold
> only one TK drive, and that one is in Norway.

The drive in question is a DLT2000

Nico
Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 08:48:22 GMT