Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Also, just curious, I understand that on tape a block <18 (? still?) is >bypassed as a noise record.
Wow! Interesting! Where is that documented? >But it's possible that with RECFM=VB the last block might, by happenstance, >consist of as few as 8 bytes (BDW=8; RDW=4). How do tape drivers deal with >this? Poorly? With RECFM=VBS, a null segment could be used for padding. Now you made me curious. [1] Damn! ;-) I really hope someone can answer you... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - Currently outside my scope of work, but hey, I worked with that things as a Storage Admin in the prehistoric days. 8-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
