3B20 Tape Buffer Limit

[Bill Vaughn]

> 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
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