[Info-vax] Odd tape drive behavior

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed Dec 4 20:36:41 EST 2013


tadamsmar <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I bought a cheap used WangDAT 3900 tape drive of ebay.  I figured what 
> have a got to lose? (Lots of wasted time is what.)

I have found in the past that some SCSI tape drives have block
size options that confuse some systems. I think that happens
at run time, though, not at device configuration time.

-- glen



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