>Michael,
>
>I have used half inch tape drives for years and more recently 8mm and 4mm
>helical scan drives. I have never heard of such devices supporting block
>addressing (except for DECtape which is obsolete).
>
>I believe that the Iomega Jazz drive and one other whose name escapes me
>right now (something like "SparQ") support block addressing and function
>almost like disks.

Heh, thay's because they _are_ disks. The jazz is a Zip on steroids...the
Zip can be 100 or 250 MB, the Jazz is 1 or 2 Gig. The SparQ is a 1 Gig USB
version of SyQuest/SyJet.

HTH
Mike
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