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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec 2842, exabyte 4200c, and NO SENSE
Date: 10 Jul 1995 17:40:03 +0200
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Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org> wrote:
>>>dd if=/dev/nrst0 bs=63b
>>
>>I don't know what tape drive you are operating, but 63 bytes
>>block size doesn't seem to make any sense for me.
>63b = 31.5k.
ooops. my fault.
> I don't know if the controller block size is 32k; somewhere I
>just read that 64k was a common size, hence the common use of 126b.
128b? Why not using `64k' if you mean this...
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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