Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751192AbWJEUM3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:12:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751200AbWJEUM3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:12:29 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51074 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbWJEUM2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:12:28 -0400 Message-ID: <45256728.2060004@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:12:24 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guennadi Liakhovetski CC: James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-scsi Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi updates for post 2.6.18 References: <1159995678.3437.80.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <45255A02.2010308@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 20 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Sure, it WOULD be nice, but I don't know how. The "don't know" refers to > the case 16MB block size, my tape supports only 16MB - 1 byte (according > to st report). Is there a way to test various block sizes with CDs / > hard-disks / ZIP / scanners? Would something with sg_dd work? Looks like > it must be only sector size. Can I low-level format a disk with 16M > sector?:-) > > Another possibility is to limit the block size at 8MB - I can test that. I would say, increase it to whatever the max is you can test... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/