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To: killybegs who wrote (3895)11/25/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Glenn Perry  Read Replies (2) of 17679
 
Jubimer - that white paper is an excellent source of information on the operation of the helical scanning recorders. I also believe more information has been added. From that page:

"The DST tape drive allows the user to set the application block size for any file or file segment when writing. Variable length recording can be achieved in an application by using a block size of one. The block size range can be one (byte stream mode) or an even number of bytes between 80 and a maximum of 1,199,840 bytes which is the physical block size recorded on tape, i.e. the minimum unit in which data can be written or read. The ideal data block sizes are those that divide into the physical block to maximize tape capacity and avoid spanning physical block boundaries. In addition to smoothing out the streaming of data to and from tape, the buffer also handles all the conversions of data blocks to and from physical blocks."

Can anyone decipher this?
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