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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Yet more about 'tc' (blocking issues)
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:00:10 GMT
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- tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:
- >Oh dear... I was suggesting this only in the hopes that it might serve to
- >fake out the SCSI manager. It don't think it will work to actually set this
- >block size at the device level, because this changes the tape format and we
- >are back to the problem of having a tape format which can't be read on a
- >different system. What I was hoping, lacking information on the 3.0 SCSI
- >manager, was that the SCSI manager could be told by the driver that the
- >device block size was 1, that the SCSI manager would hopefully permit device
- >transfers N times this value, and that the actual device block size would be
- >set unbeknownst to the SCSI manager, using the SCSI set mode command to the
- >device (I'm still not completely convinced this won't work, though it would
- >be a horrible kludge).
-
- >It sounds to me like this SCSI manager was written to do fixed block mode
- >i/o to SCSI disk devices. The stock tc driver wants the tape device to look
- >like a disk in order to use this SCSI manager code. It might still be
- >possible to work around this, but I am kind of stuck until the 3.0 device
- >driver kit comes out, as I have no source for any of this stuff. Even so,
- >if the limitation lies further into the A/UX kernel we may be stuck.
-
- This kludge was an immediate effort to try to fix this... What tc 3.11 will
- attempt to do is the above... As you admit, this is a horrible kludge
- and will take some time and testing. I was hoping that this initial step would
- help things out until then.
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