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... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@xxxxxxxxxx Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html