Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:20:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: jbh@labyrinth.net.au (John Hartley) Subject: Re: tandberg scsi tape + FreeBSD 2.1/2.0.5 Message-ID: <199607180820.KAA04086@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607180313.NAA07553@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> from John Hartley at "Jul 18, 96 01:13:47 pm"
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As John Hartley wrote: > In a desperate attempt to get the drive up and running I #defined out the > entire st_mode_select section of code, as this seemed to be where all the > errors were coming from. Also I considered that mechanism as very > fragile in that it allowed no leeway in how the driver "talked" to the > tape drive. > I guess my idea about it was, I ask the tape to read/write a stream of data, > I don't care or want to know how it choices to do this. It a smart fellow > it will work something out.... ;-) I also wonder why the code is generally attempting to MODE SELECT the drive (and i've been asked by somebody who's been hacking SCSI on an old SVR4 why he never needed a ``rogues gallery'' while we do). Julian? What's the reasoning behind this??? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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