chris@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Chris Johnston) (05/04/85)
Can this be? We have a new 3B5. The tape hardware seems to be limited to an 8k buffer. Since every one in the world writes tar tapes with blocksize 20 we rewrite many tapes. Chris Johnston Fone: 312 962-8440 CSNet: chris@UChicago.CSNet ARPA: johnston@anl-mcs.ARPA UUCP: ...!ihnp4!gargoyle!chris MailNet: j1.johnston@UChicago.MailNet
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (05/05/85)
> We have a new 3B5. The tape hardware seems to be limited to an 8k > buffer. That's what I hear. Be glad it's not the minimum meeting the ANSI magtape standard (2048 bytes, I believe).
dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St. Pierre) (05/10/85)
In article <446@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> chris@gargoyle.UUCP (Chris Johnston) writes: > >We have a new 3B5. The tape hardware seems to be limited to an 8k >buffer. Since every one in the world writes tar tapes with blocksize >20 we rewrite many tapes. > Gee - that's a 33% improvement over what they've been offering for the 3B20! Every time I got a tar tape from a 3rd party, I'd have to go begging to someone with a micro so I could reblock the tape. Oh well, any year now ...