10 Jun
2015
10 Jun
'15
8:46 a.m.
On 6/10/15 8:15 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
And that is precisely why I'm thinking of an
ad-hoc interface rather than just plugging a SCSI drive into a UNIX box.
It also has the advantage that you can return the CRC/checksum and partially read blocks.
Most SCSI tape drives don't
return the data if the read doesn't succeed. Some drives have a seismic mode for
dealing with oil exploration tapes
which returns anything read, but it has it's own set of problems (it will happily
return garbage if the density doesn't
match)