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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: st0: 262144-byte record too big (reading SGI tar tape)
References: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> <19980918191611.12243@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
Date: 18 Sep 1998 13:58:49 -0400
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:

> You cannot read SGI tapes (with their default blocksize) on FreeBSD,
> due to limitations in physio(9) (which have been constrained by older
> SCSI controllers that cannot handle more than 16 scatter/gather
> segments).

Any suggestions for blocksize? The "st" man page suggests a maximum of
64KB so I was thinking 32K. Should that be OK? 

Thanks!

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