Output blocksize on Fujitsu 9-track
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sun Dec 9 14:56:50 AEST 1990
In article <638 at brchh104.bnr.ca> mtxinu!sybase!sid at ucbvax.berkeley.edu (S. Cowles) writes:
>...When XX is 63 and smaller, the operation works
>fine, no surprises. 64 and larger blocksizes cause the error...
You don't specify what controller your magtape drive is on. For a guess,
it's a Xylogics 472. The byte-count field on that controller is 16 bits.
It is incapable of writing a block bigger than 64K-1 bytes.
"The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry at zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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