Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:07:26 -0800 From: Alan Batie <alan@agora.rdrop.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to tape gets Invalid Argument Message-ID: <20001103010726.C10017@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <20001103001831.A20500@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0600 References: <20001102204405.A880@agora.rdrop.com> <20001102224652.B1613@dan.emsphone.com> <20001102212931.A2641@agora.rdrop.com> <20001103001831.A20500@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > BTW: FreeBSD currently has a (rather small) SCSI I/O limit of 64K, so > your 1MB write will be split up into 16 64K blocks on tape. Well, that was just an experiment to see if it would go any faster anyhow, since tar's default of 10K seems rather small. It's working now, thanks... -- Alan Batie ______ www.rdrop.com/users/alan Me alan@batie.org \ / www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A \ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ www.anti-spam.net NO SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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