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From: cfj@isc.intel.com (Charlie Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI Tape Question
Message-ID: <909@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 16:44:35 GMT
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I was wonder if someone out there could give me a hint on what is the normal
way that most systems handle the reading from tape when the blocksize does
not match the blocksize that the tape was written in ??  Should this be
considered an error ??  Particularly, I have an Exabyte 8200 which I'm reading
in fixed block mode.  The number of blocks that I get back in the info bytes
of the sense data is always the same as the number of blocks which were
requested in the read (which says to me that no data was transfered!). It
doesn't make any difference if the read blocksize is greater than the write
blocksize or less than.



Thanks!!

-- 
Charles Johnson
Intel Scientific Computers, MS CO1-01
15201 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
Beaverton, OR  97006           phone: (503)629-7605  email: cfj@isc.intel.com