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- From: decvax!cwruecmp!nitrex!rbl (Rob Lake)
-
- In article <8014@ut-sally.UUCP> gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (John Gilmore) writes:
- >From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (John Gilmore)
- >
- >I don't know anybody who's ever had trouble reading a tar tape
- >(assuming their hardware could read the medium).
-
- I've had trouble reading tar tapes, given hardware that could read
- the medium. The problem was with block sizes that were too large
- for the tape drive/controller/device driver to handle. Never could
- decide which it was, but --- having once designed a tape controller ---
- pretty well assumed it was not the drive itself.
-
- [ The 3B20 tape controller has this problem. -mod ]
-
- Rob Lake
- decvax!cwruecmp!nitrex!rbl
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 27
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