Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192

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Jay Denebeim wrote:
>In article <200507231528.20356.jhml@xxxxxxx>,
>Johann Hanne <jhml@xxxxxxx> 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.

Tapes are different. The UDO drive that Johann was asking about is an
optical _disk_ drive...

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