[daip] forwarded message from Colleen M. Schwartz

[Eric Greisen]

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From: "Colleen M. Schwartz" <schwartz at physics.ucsb.edu>
To: Eric Greisen <egreisen at NRAO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Your Mail 
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:35:08 -0700 (PDT)

It's a DEC Alpha system with a Western Scientific DAT drive, and a new HP
8Gb tape.  

Since FITTP, PRTTP and FITLD are working on other tapes though, doesn't
that indicate that it's not a software problem?  

I also checked and there are definitely no magnets in my drawer...

Colleen

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eric Greisen wrote:

> I will bet that the machine on which you wrote this tape was
> configured to have a fixed block size (e.g. 512 bytes).  You must
> always run PRTTP on any tape you write just to confirm its
> reliability.  WE have a vague memory that this can be controlled in
> softwre but we can't find any place where it is - perhaps that has to
> be an installation (system) parameter.  Where did you write this
> tape?
> 
> FRING should work fine on a single-source file.
> 
> Eric
> 
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