Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:13:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte), andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: dump and 32blocks limit Message-ID: <199605232113.XAA19528@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605221842.UAA01161@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 22, 96 08:42:59 pm"
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As Wilko Bulte wrote: > I'm not absolutely sure this is SCSI-only related but: > > I grabbed the -current dump sources and found a 32 block limit builtin > there. Comment sez: restore can't read >32, maybe a bug in the tapedriver. > > I was aware of 64kbyte rawio limit, but this 32 is new to me. I ran > dumps with 128 (== 64kbyte) and never had restore nuke me. The claim with the 32 KB blocking was Andreas Klemm's one. The 64 KB physio limit effectively limits the tape block size to this value, regardless of your dump or dd settings. -- 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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