Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: swapping tapes between Suns and DECstations
Message-ID: <5190@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 22:15:46 GMT
References: <25458@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>We've discovered than some UNIX systems (Sun's for instance) only
>provide [at this time] drivers that use fixed block mode.

I think at least some of the SCSI drivers in SunOS 4.x support
variable-block mode.