On Mar 2 10:51, Jason Winter wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Rereading the MSDN: Q161338 document I refered to before, Cygwin will need > to use a minimum 128KB buffer when 'reading' data from tapes - the NT > specification doesn't allow access to the 'last bytes' in a variable-block > any other way. 128KB allows for any SCSI device under windows.
If you have a look into the source code, you'll see that Cygwin in variable block size case creates a buffer of the maximum block size allowed by the tape drive (or driver), returned by GetTapeParameters(). I've not investigated so far if read behaves correctly or not, but now I understand what you're up to. I'll look into it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
