Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SCSI tape blocks > 128k ? | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:56:43 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Harald Koenig wrote: > I have to read SCSI tapes (DAT DDS1 this time) which have been written > on non-Linux systems with blocksize >128k (512k right now, 1M possible too) > but right now Linux (2.0) only supports up to 128k blocksize.
I have a patch sitting in incoming at Linux-patches@samba.anu.edu.au that would make this possible. However it seems that Linus has gotten bored of looking there, and there hasn't been any activity there for over a month now.
http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/linux-patches/incoming?id=267
The patch implements the bigbuffer support required for this use, and patches "sg" to actually use it. A two-line patch will allow st to also use this......
Roger.
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