Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Reading 12255 byte tape blocks on System V
Message-ID: <646@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 88 02:25:14 GMT
References: <741@hdr.UUCP> <7849@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 16
Keywords: 9-track tape driver problem

In article <7849@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <741@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
> >I am having trouble reading 9-track tapes that have a blocksize greater than
> >8192 bytes on my AT&T 3B15 running System V 2.1.1 equipped with a standard
> >1600 bpi 9-track 1/2 inch tape drive.
> 
> I don't have direct experience with this configuration, but I have heard
> from usually-reliable sources that the limit is in the magtape controller
> itself, not in the operating system software.

Considering that AT&T makes both controller hardware and driver
software, this does not provide much recourse or alternative :-(.

-- 
Steve Friedl    V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442    3B2-kind-of-guy
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