SCSI tape blocks > 128k ?

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:36:55 +0200


I have to read SCSI tapes (DAT DDS1 this time) which have been written
on non-Linux systems with blocksize >128k (512k right now, 1M possible too)
but right now Linux (2.0) only supports up to 128k blocksize.

is there any chance this will be changed in 2.1 or 2.3 ?

if not, is there any possibility (and hopefully some tools available;)
to access such devices from user space using generic scsi devices or similar ?

I don't like the idea that Linux isn't possible to read pretty standard media
from other OSs...

Harald

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