thompson@dalcs.UUCP (03/17/87)
I am planing on writing a tape-testing program, this is a program, that would write one of several bit-patterns on to tape for it's entire length and then (optionally) rewind and reread. Our tape drive automatically reads what it has written and rewrites it if necessary. The program would also print an guess of the amount of tape written before the end-of-tape. Now what I would like to have are suggestions for bit patterns to use, I am looking for bit patterns that are more likely to generate a hard error in the case of a bad tape, also any references to literature on determining such bit patterns. Thanx in advance -- Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S. thompson@dalcs.uucp From Bitnet or Uucp thompson@cs.dal.cdn From Bitnet or Cdn thompson%dalcs.uucp@seismo.arpa From Arpa