Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:29:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, andreas@knobel.gun.de Subject: Re: dump and 32blocks limit Message-ID: <199605241729.TAA20959@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199605232113.XAA19528@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 23, 96 11:13:03 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. Andreas, Any more info on this?? > The 64 KB physio limit effectively limits the tape block size to this > value, regardless of your dump or dd settings. That was my understanding allright. > cheers, J"org > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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