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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:07:26 -0800
From:      Alan Batie <alan@agora.rdrop.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Writing to tape gets Invalid Argument
Message-ID:  <20001103010726.C10017@agora.rdrop.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001103001831.A20500@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0600
References:  <20001102204405.A880@agora.rdrop.com> <20001102224652.B1613@dan.emsphone.com> <20001102212931.A2641@agora.rdrop.com> <20001103001831.A20500@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> BTW: FreeBSD currently has a (rather small) SCSI I/O limit of 64K, so
> your 1MB write will be split up into 16 64K blocks on tape.

Well, that was just an experiment to see if it would go any faster anyhow,
since tar's default of 10K seems rather small.

It's working now, thanks...

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