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From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Subject: 1/4" tape and record sizes
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.024011.387@odi.com>
Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 02:40:11 GMT

My 320 has the usual IBM/tandberg 1/4 inch polymorphously perverse
tape drive. (anyone know where to get a drive like this that writes
both 60 and 150 MB for a sun?)

In smit, its configured for 512 byte blocks. I write tapes with backup
-i (for consumption of installp). tcopy, documented to report on
record sizes, swears that the tape blocks are 65536 bytes long.
I think it's lying. Can anyone convince me otherwise?


-- 
Benson I. Margulies