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A word about Block Length

We already mentioned that the Drive must be agnostic with respect to the tape format. This includes block length. As we can infer from the previous discussion, it is possible for Software to make blocks of variable lengths along the tape. Although this is not the must likely case (fixed-length blocks makes it easy for data manipulation), this specification does not put any restriction on that respect. Care about block length must laid in Software, no Drive's hardware.