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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MaxTransfer and SCSIdirect
Message-ID: <638@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 12 Jul 89 23:28:12 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

In <19640@louie.udel.EDU>, PROVERO@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
>On another note, what exactly *IS* MaxTransfer for in the mountlists?  CLtd
>doesn't say anything about this parameter in any of their docs, and the info
>in the WB 1.3 manual is not exactly enlightening.  Any help would be 
>appreciated.

MaxTransfer is a limiting factor that tells the file system the largest size of
a read or write request that the driver can handle. The file system, if it gets
a larger request from a program, will break it up into smaller units before
asking the driver to read.

Leaving MaxTransfer out of the Mountlist tells the file system that  reads or
writes of any size are allowed, and any limtations of the controller/drive are
handled in the driver itself.

-larry

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