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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:07:37 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64k physio limit 
Message-ID:  <199809010007.TAA04928@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@village.org>  of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:23:26 MDT." <199808310623.AAA01070@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh writes:
> Is there any way to get a larger I/O to happen than 64k?  I have a tape
> drive that would be happiest if I could do 256kish writes to it at a time,
> rather than only 64k.

I'd like to see this also too. People keep handing me 4mm DDS tapes from
SGI systems written in 256k blocks. Even 8mm defaults to 128k on SGI.
Then there is another user who thinks writting 1024k (megabyte)
blocksize is fun. Well there's little hope for that last guy, but
support for 256k tape blocks would let me place FreeBSD machines where
none are currently.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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