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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Output blocksize on Fujitsu 9-track
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In article <638@brchh104.bnr.ca> mtxinu!sybase!sid@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (S. Cowles) writes:
>...When XX is 63 and smaller, the operation works
>fine, no surprises.  64 and larger blocksizes cause the error...

You don't specify what controller your magtape drive is on.  For a guess,
it's a Xylogics 472.  The byte-count field on that controller is 16 bits.
It is incapable of writing a block bigger than 64K-1 bytes.

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