Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS

John Wilson wilson at dbit.com
Sun Oct 4 02:32:51 CDT 2015


On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 09:49:49PM -0700, Marc Verdiell wrote:
>Your program worked beautifully writing a SIMH format file on my HP 88780
>tape!

Beauty -- glad to hear it!

The difference is that SIMH's native format pads records to even sizes before
appending the "length" longword, and E11's doesn't.  But most popular tape
labeling schemes will always produce even-lengthed records, so there's no
difference.

John Wilson
D Bit


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