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SubjectRe: SCSI tape blocks > 128k ?
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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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