From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 26 11:24:54 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA04384 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA04374 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA28563 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:24:48 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA17288 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:24:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA27137 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:23:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612261923.UAA27137@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DAT: reading with blocksize=256K To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:23:38 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32C2CEAD.794BDF32@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Dec 26, 96 11:14:53 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > the drive is in fixed block mode. > in FIXED block mode what is actually written to tape is fixed blocks > and many are written at a time for a large read/write But, you can't do 1 MB fixed blocks, right? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)