From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 2 10:37:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D1A14DA5 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02669; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:38:28 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:38:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Stephen McKay , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape driver problems In-Reply-To: <199912021834.LAA50772@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I know you didn't. But if I didn't make that qualification, from previous > experience I can guess that I would get mail from a few people complaining > about some problem they have with their aha board. I was just trying to > take some preventative action. Yes, and not sending email would have worked too! :-) > > > > more than 64K at a time. So you shouldn't be using any more than that. > > > > Nonsense. That's what bounce buffers can or *should* be used for too. > > Well, talk to Warner about it. You could probably use bounce buffers to > handle the problem. For now, though, I think 64K is the lowest common > denominator. Oh, goody! We can make FreeBSD as retarded as Solaris/SunOS then! Even better, let's make the limit 63Kbytes for compatibility with Solaris/SunOS and I can go back to automatically typing 'tar cvb 126...'..... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message