Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:12:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape question Message-ID: <19970908001216.PA02497@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709072013.NAA25379@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 7, 1997 20:13:44 %2B0000 References: <19970907172200.ZJ25357@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709072013.NAA25379@usr07.primenet.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Fourth, a raw device can be written to pad requests to media block > boundries, despite it appearing to be a character at a time device. We aren't talking about media block boundaries. We are talking about variable-length recording media, i.e. the media block boundary is just what you've been requesting in your write(2) syscall. -- 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. ;-)
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