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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Subject: Re: Reading on RS600 8mm tape written on SUN sparc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.153544.26676@cdsac.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:35:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.144407.15931@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <21@shady.UUCP> <1992Jul25.124140.19805@cti-software.nl>
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- In article <1992Jul25.124140.19805@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
- >Our 8mm drive is set to blocksize 512, the installation release
- >notes say this is required for mksysb. But this make your 8mm drive
- >into a 1.1 GB drive!
-
- Reset it to 1024 for normal use. "mksysb" will change it to 512 when
- you run it, then you must manually change it back to 1024 after the
- "mksysb".
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- L. Scott Emmons
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