9 track tapes and block sizes

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Sep 18 09:53:24 CDT 2020


On 9/18/20 5:21 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
> I usually use tapeutils:
> https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils
> 

I should bug Eric about this, but the .tap files that library creates doesn't have the Supnik SIMH extensions

I use it for all of the SCSI recoveries that I do on Linux machines.
It also works with 1/4" cartridges but you want to keep the block size at 512 so that if there is a bad
physical block it will only return that one block as bad instead of however many blocks the read attempts
to return.




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