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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi updates for post 2.6.18
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:12:24 -0400
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To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Sure, it WOULD be nice, but I don't know how. The "don't know" refers to 
> the case 16MB block size, my tape supports only 16MB - 1 byte (according 
> to st report). Is there a way to test various block sizes with CDs / 
> hard-disks / ZIP / scanners? Would something with sg_dd work? Looks like 
> it must be only sector size. Can I low-level format a disk with 16M 
> sector?:-)
> 
> Another possibility is to limit the block size at 8MB - I can test that.

I would say, increase it to whatever the max is you can test...

	Jeff