From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: denebeim@deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim) Subject: Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200507231528.20356.jhml@gmx.net> Return-path: Received: from deepthot.org ([68.14.232.127]:24034 "EHLO dent.deepthot.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261214AbVGYPoH (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:44:07 -0400 Received: from news by dent.deepthot.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx57V-0001t3-Ma for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:43:57 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In article <200507231528.20356.jhml@gmx.net>, Johann Hanne wrote: >Wow, an answer directly from Plasmon, that's nice. :-) >I've already got the FUSE driver (udofs-1.1-92.i386.rpm, based on >FUSE 1.4, is this current?!). It is nice for a standalone drive, but >we use a SCSI robotic changer in conjunction with an HSM system >(Legato DiskXtender 2.9) which needs some kind of direct access to >the drive. It probes for /dev/nst*, but I guess /dev/sd* would also >work. I'm a little confused here. Tape devices have variable sector sizes. I believe they're required to handle up to 64K in a unix environment. The drives I work on go up to 256k. Jay -- * Jay Denebeim Moderator rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated * * newsgroup submission address: b5mod@deepthot.org * * moderator contact address: b5mod-request@deepthot.org * * personal contact address: denebeim@deepthot.org *