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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Yet more about 'tc' (blocking issues)
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- References: <1228@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov11.032712.26391@noao.edu> <1241@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1243@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1244@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov14.060233.3593@noao.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:02:17 GMT
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- tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:
-
- >In article <1244@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- >> Well, I've been testing this and it doesn't look good... It seems that
- >> the SCSI Manager won't allow it to accept "wrong length" transfers
- >> when reading:
-
- >I have no information on the SCSI manager and am only grasping for straws,
- >but a remote possibility exists if the SCSI manager allows transfers which
- >are a multiple of N times the device block size. In that case, setting the
- >block size to 1 byte would allow odd size transfers to the device.
-
- This may be possible... Of course, 'tc' would 1st have to issue a
- Read Block Limits to see if the device can do down as low as 1byte and
- then do the Mode Select... This also would mean that things be set up
- so that the device isn't _really_ in variable mode but in a small fixed
- blocksize mode... I'll have to see about this...
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