I think I'm confused. You make it sound like the "tape reader" hardware/driver isn't talking to the "file reader" part in software . Didn't the file reader tell

I think I'm confused. You make it sound like the "tape reader" hardware/driver isn't talking to the "file reader" part in software . Didn't the file reader tell the tape reader the size of the file, so it would already know where the end was (how many blocks it should read)?