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- From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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- Subject: tape blocksizes (8mm - Exabyte)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.161801.29010@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:18:01 GMT
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- I may be horribly wrong, but as I understand it, each pass of the head
- on the 8mm lays down 1K, so use of blocksizes other than multiples of
- 1K leads to waste of tape. The RISC System/6000 can only boot tapes of
- blocksize 512, so that's what mksysb uses...
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