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From: kev@hpcpbla.HP.COM (Kevin Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: exabyte record size limit
Message-ID: <10080003@hpcpbla.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 09:32:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.154740.11155@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
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> All SCSI tape drives I have seen limit the maximum variable length
> record size to what can be held in the drive controllers data buffer.

HP's DAT drives allow record sizes up to 16777215 bytes.
(Thats 0xFFFFFF hex). This is for fixed or variable.

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