The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide
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Description | Set the tape drive buffer code to number (SCSI tapes). | |||||
Abuse | ftape-3.04d (and later versions) abuses this command to set the number of dma buffers it consumes for its cyclic read/write buffer list. | |||||
Notes | ftape needs at least 3 dma buffers to work reasonably well. The maximum allowed number of dma buffers is determined by the FDC driver modules:
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Example
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set the number of dma buffers to 10. As each dma buffer has a size of 32kb this results in 320kb of memory being allocated for ftape.
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References
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see Swapout |
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