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Date:      Fri, 3 May 1996 00:07:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject:   Re: using DLT drive on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199605022207.AAA15521@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605021801.UAA01622@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 2, 96 08:01:19 pm"

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As Wilko Bulte wrote:

> I think the 2.1R limit is 32kbytes. In the recent past there was a
> discussion about this on this list (in relation to DAT drives??).

64 KB, this is enforced by physio(9) [man page not yet written :)].
Many SCSI adapters do only allow for 16 scatter/gather segments, and
in the worst case, you need one of them for each physical page.
(Well, i think that's what kept in my mind from the previous
discussion.)

Changing this will require a larger rework, or perhaps bounce
buffers. ;)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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