Ilya Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 8K physical block, will I lose just some number of physical blocks,
> or will my data become completely unaligned? How will the fact that the
> tape drive compresses the data affect further reading?
It depends on the tape drive. Most tape drive will not allow you to
do anything after an error, except rewinding.
Some may allow you to continue reading, presumably at the next
readable block boundary.
It's not really an OS issue.
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