Date: 18 Sep 1998 13:58:49 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: st0: 262144-byte record too big (reading SGI tar tape) Message-ID: <87k931fgkm.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:16:11 %2B0200" References: <87hfy6wqgd.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> <19980918191611.12243@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: > You cannot read SGI tapes (with their default blocksize) on FreeBSD, > due to limitations in physio(9) (which have been constrained by older > SCSI controllers that cannot handle more than 16 scatter/gather > segments). Any suggestions for blocksize? The "st" man page suggests a maximum of 64KB so I was thinking 32K. Should that be OK? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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