[7098] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi driver transfer size and sync mode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Wed Sep 1 16:22:25 1999
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:29:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Tony Chung <chungto@ampex.com>
cc: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <37CD7B1B.84586CAE@ampex.com>
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Tony Chung wrote:
> Kai Makisara wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Tony Chung wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 1. Can Linux support single scsi transfer of at least 1040384 bytes?
> >
> > Yes. I have written tape blocks of at least 1.5 MB.
What is this utter crap that requires a so large IO size, given that
recent hard disks are able to perform more than 20 MB/second sustaint data
transfers, using 8K actual IO chunks (and may-be less).
May be, it can run sustaint data transfers at 4 GB/second. ;-)
Gérard.
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