| Title: | MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES |
| Moderator: | STKHLM::GJOHNSSON |
| Created: | Mon Sep 21 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3775 |
| Total number of notes: | 13147 |
The product description for the TZ88X refers to "tape mark directories
to minimize data access time".
Can you explain what this means and whether any of our tape software
products take advantage of it ??
Thx,
Dave Rifkin
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3641.1 | As far as I know.. | SUBSYS::TRAN | Straight <Left> Hitter.. | Thu Jan 30 1997 23:54 | 10 |
It keeps track of where tape marks are, so when you space filemarks
the drive will try to get there as fast as it can (skip tracks).
New MKDriver on OVMS 7.1 claims to use skip filemark rather than skip
records as the older method.
On SW application, I'll leave that reponse to SW group.
T.
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| 3641.2 | COOKIE::FROEHLIN | Let's RAID the Internet! | Fri Jan 31 1997 18:00 | 4 | |
BACKUP and COPY on OpenVMS V7.1 use skip filemark where possible.
See the V7.1 Release Notes for details.
Guenther
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