<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On 28 Mar 2013, at 12:19 PM, <<a href="mailto:simh-request@trailing-edge.com">simh-request@trailing-edge.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:simh-request@trailing-edge.com">simh-request@trailing-edge.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">It's not right (or at least, not complete) for the block-addressable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>DECtapes.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Right. I forgot DECtapes are block addressable.<div><br></div><div>Does anyone need any RSX Files-11 on-disk format documentation? I have a paper copy of Andy Goldstein's 1979 Files-11 documentation. I imagine Al does too. I could try to find out what the RSX manuals say about the initialization parameters used for a DECtape. It is quote likely they don't make DECtape a special case, but use the same parameters for any small capacity disk (like a floppy).<br><div><br><div>Larry Baker<br>US Geological Survey<br>650-329-5608<br><a href="mailto:baker@usgs.gov">baker@usgs.gov</a><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>