[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Paul Sture]

In article <kgfcuq$9f1$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
 Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Actually, I think for most hardware, the limit is actually 64k 
> for one read.

I believe that is correct.  However I purposely restricted VMS backup 
tapes to a maximum of 32K because that meant I could copy savesets to 
disk.

Tapes with "infinite" block sizes do exist, for example for recording 
seismological results and you need special hardware to read such tapes.

-- 
Paul Sture