21 Jan
2004
21 Jan
'04
8:48 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: Odd PDP-11 tape related question
The drive in question is a DLT2000
Nico
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.