Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192

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In article <200507260038.22820.jhml@xxxxxxx> you write:
>> >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...
>Hmm... would it be _possible_ to support it as tape device (/dev/st* 
>and /dev/nst*)?

Not that I'm aware, no. It's not designed to be used as a tape at
all. To be honest, if you want a device that looks like a tape,
then... :-)

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