[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-08-08 20:10, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <pkejdj$ulr$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>
>> True. But it's very seldom a piece of information I ever cared about. :-)
>> Tape drives normally autodetected the density. It was more a thing I had
>> to care about when writing tapes. And then I had to choose it.
>>
> 
>     Which only goes to show, that your situation, of course, was
>     different from mine.

Yeah, every situation is unique. But I'm not totally clear on what the 
need for finding the density was, except if you want to duplicate the 
tape. For just reading, it wouldn't really matter, since it's usually 
autodetected.

But you might have had other use cases that I just can't think of. (Lack 
of imagination on my part... :-) )

   Johnny

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