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Re: Series III - Tape Streamer Errors - Please, please help!

2005-09-25 by Peter

Hi Marcin,

I have no idea how to find this out?!?! Anybody?

Cheers,
Peter

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski 
<rambo@i...> wrote:
> > your tape drive is out of alignment with  the original tape
> > drive that was used to save the sounds.
> 
> Adding to wild assumptions: what's your streamers default block 
(bytes per logical sector) size? Because, while old streamers had 
hardwired 512-bytes or 2048-bytes  blocksize, later could autoswitch 
between 512, 1024, 2048- with some "default" blocksize set with 
jumpers (and yes, it was likewise with old CD burners).

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