3B20 Tape Buffer Limit
Bill Vaughn
bill at ur-cvsvax.UUCP
Fri May 10 16:03:59 AEST 1985
> There is also a limit on 3b20's. We've been getting tar format tapes
> written on a vax running 4.2 and the blocksize = 20. Our controller
> can't read the tapes. If you're sending tar tapes for general distribution,
> please use a smaller blocksize; whatever the default is seems to work.
>
> Mike Kelly
> AT&T Teletype
But the default blocksize for TAR is 20. (Always has been, always will be :-)
Bill Vaughn, Center for Visual Science, UNIV. OF ROCHESTER
{allegra,seismo,decvax}!rochester!ur-cvsvax!bill
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