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 friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl