From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 3 12:24:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA19866 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19768 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA02159; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:21:46 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA06899; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA27322; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:00:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611032000.VAA27322@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Write me some blank checks ... To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:00:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <327CEB04.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> from Sean Kelly at "Nov 3, 96 11:57:08 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Kelly wrote: > What does this mean? > > Nov 3 11:51:54 sage /kernel: st1(bt0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 32768 > (decimal) > > I wish it meant I could receive some blank checks ... I could use the > money, but I have a feeling that's not quite what it's supposed to be. That's only since you Americans are abusing the English language too much, so you cannot distinguish between a check and a cheque now. :-) ``Blank check'' means that you've tried to read unwritten tape area, i.e. read past end of recorded medium. -- 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. ;-)