Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:23:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: DAT: reading with blocksize=256K Message-ID: <199612261923.UAA27137@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <32C2CEAD.794BDF32@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Dec 26, 96 11:14:53 am"
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As Julian Elischer wrote: > the drive is in fixed block mode. > in FIXED block mode what is actually written to tape is fixed blocks > and many are written at a time for a large read/write But, you can't do 1 MB fixed blocks, right? :-) -- 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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