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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R quirks
Message-ID: <D07678.Awy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <3bli7f$2gp@nic-nac.csu.net> <3blk93$m53@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 19:01:55 GMT
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In article <3blk93$m53@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
>I believe (off the top of my head) that the max SCSI transfer is 126
>blocks, not 128.  I know at Purdue we back up hundreds of machines to
>hundreds of SCSI tape drives and they all use a blocking factor of
>126.

Were they Suns?  Was this by any chance a SunOS limit, not a SCSI limit?

-- Richard
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