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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!henson!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard 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 Lines: 14 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 -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough