14 Jan
2004
14 Jan
'04
12:25 a.m.
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.
The software I use for copying tapes, is able to make block-to-block copies,
regardless of logical sizes. The only problem is that I have no TK drives.
Despite my involvement in media conversion since 1986 or so, I have sold
only one TK drive, and that one is in Norway. Cant even be sure about the
type. As it happens, I go to Norway this weekend for PM at that customer
(Tax Directorate), and I can check which one it is. What then could be a
possibility, is that I convert the tape next time I get there, which will be
around april 1 (no joke intended).
Nico