Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:02:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: Exabyte 8mm tape drive performance in -current? Message-ID: <199602190802.JAA11282@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602190247.UAA02537@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Feb 18, 96 08:47:19 pm
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As Bob Willcox wrote: > > Make sure you don't use 512 byte fixed size > > blocks with -current ... > > On the -current system I cannot change the blocksize away from 512. > Normally I use variable blocksize and use mt to set it to 0. This > does not work on -current (for either the NCR or Adaptec adapters). I've also noticed some strange behaviour for this on -current. Don't know why this crept in. However, i've been successful to change the blocksize on the control devices (mt -f /dev/st0ctl.0 blocksize 0), does this also fail for you? -- 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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