On 08/10/2016 04:23 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 08/10/2016 04:11 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
I did not write the code if I did then there would likely have been a verify phase. Some people kind of expect when you tell the drive to write the data its just written and if it were not there would be an error. Kind of like disk drives most times. The 9 track tape drives I used to work on had a read after write head, so errors could be detected during write.
yes. Till the software writes 0000000000000* The tape full of zeros will verify quite correctly. Its kind of like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mt0 count=100009. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||