Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:43:37 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive? Message-ID: <199810230143.SAA19473@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> "Re: Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive?" (Oct 23, 9:34am)
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On Oct 23, 9:34am, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: } Subject: Re: Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive? } I } think the old 128k/64k blocksize limit was a result of the broken DMA chipset } on PCs, which PCI stuff doesn't (I think) suffer from. There was some } discussion a while back about changing this limitation. Which is where I remember the limit from. I've also encountered old controllers that only had a 16 bit register to set the record length, I think mostly old Xylogics multibus controllers plugged into VME adapters in Sun systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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