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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.182440.3845@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:24:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com>, shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
- >
- > [ The customer asks for details about support of the Exabyte 8500. ]
-
- This is what I know. First consider the source of the 2 GB limitation.
- Tape drives are devices. All devices are files. The current BYTE
- offset within a given file is stored as a 32 bit signed integer. If
- the byte offset ever exceeds the capacity allowed by this 32 bit signed
- integer some form of ENOSPC error is usually the result.
-
- As a result you're limited to 2 GB per file/device. I've never used
- one of these, but I would think that if you could management not to
- get an ENOSPC error up near the 2 GB range, you could put 2nd 2 GB
- file on the media. The problem is that applications that write tapes
- will probably die or want to restart if they ever get an ENOSPC error.
-
- Solution? The SCSI CAM driver available with V4.2 has a way of
- presenting a suitable lie to the file layer about the byte offset
- for large tapes. The result is that applications won't see these
- errors until you really do reach the end of the media. I believe
- that some version of dump has been modified to know this is going
- on. I believe the V4.3 dump(8) will have this feature.
- >
- >Shahryar
- >
- >--
- >Shahryar G. Hashemi
- >System/Network Administrator -- RICOH Corporation California Research Center
- >2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115 Telephone: (415) 496-5730
- >Menlo Park, CA 94025-7022 FAX: (415) 854-8740
- >E-Mail: <shahryar@crc.ricoh.com>
- >
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- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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