Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 21:30:20 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: davidg@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org, gwk@cray.com Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K Message-ID: <199606211130.VAA15489@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> physio() needs to have a no-split flag that would be set by the tape >> drivers. >I would rather like to see the problem resolved once and for all. >This will however require some ``bounce buffer'' support, at least for >those controllers that can only handle 16 scatter/gather segments >(thus 16 physical pages == 64 KB). There has to be a limit, so the no-split flag is still required. Bruce
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