19 Jul
2005
19 Jul
'05
13:56
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 9:28 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Also, DECtape was random access tape, in the sense you could write any block on the tape at any time and the drive would seek the the tape. This was made possible by subjecting the tape to a formatting operation that assigned distinct locations to each sector, just as formatting a disk drive does. Essentially, the formatting of a DECtape was to make the home position midway on the tape. It sets up an index, and essentially, the DECtape is an indexed-sequential file system. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9