Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:37:50 -0400 From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does CAM do this? Message-ID: <23743.893536670@brown.pfcs.com> In-Reply-To: "Louis A. Mamakos"'s (louie@TransSys.COM) message dated Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:51:50. <199804251951.PAA09723@whizzo.TransSys.COM>
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> Perhaps I've come in the middle here, but typically you simply issue > a read(2) system call with as large a block size as you're willing or > able to accomodate. The byte count returned is the size of the tape > block which was actually read. This sort of scheme works even if every > block within a tape file is a different block size. That works for reading a tape, but not for copying or writing tapes. Sometimes, the tape *must* be written with particular blocksizes for bootloaders or foreign systems. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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