Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Oct 6 14:22:23 CDT 2015


On 10/06/2015 11:54 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:

> Of course, that's mostly true for those machines restricted to silly
> octets as their native data representation. :->

And one finds odd-byte-sized records not infrequently in big iron--and 
then you have to ask "where do most half-inch 9-track tapes originate?" 
  It ain't from DEC, for sure.

FWIW, my routines don't bother to pad to an even byte boundary.

--Chuck



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