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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K
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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