Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192

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Jay Denebeim wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> Jay Denebeim wrote:
>>>
>>> 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...
>
>Yeah, I got that.  I wasn't going to say anything until he mentioned using 
>the tape driver with it.  Is the UDO drive presenting itself as a tape or 
>as a disk?

It's a disk, SCSI type 7 (optical). The tape thing is a red herring,
IMHO.

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