Thanks for your reply, Ian!
I thought about that, and I felt like it was writing the records
ok... but I could be wrong. I am going to re-output the original
records without EOR characters just in case, and re-write it that
way. Also, I am hoping I can get ahold of a tape that already has
valid data on it to read, the only problem is the BPI could be higher
and this drive has a fixed BPI and I think it might have some
problems reading it. Anyway, thanks for your input and I'll let you
know what happens. I got 6 tapes and am going to try writing the
tapes several different ways hopefully one will work ...
[C]
--- In [email protected], "Ian Brooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a general comment as I have no specific knowledge of this
drive. However, when using fixed length records, in any medium, it
would be very unusual to have any sort of terminator marking the end
of the records. Even with variable length records where the record
length is held in the first bytes it is unusual to have a terminator,
the records generally follow on directly from each other. Adding
these extra two bytes would certainly screw-up the block length and
is very likely causing your problem.
>
> Ian
>
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