From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 16:39:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5CF16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nectar@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D920D43D48 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:39:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nectar@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gw.celabo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by internal.gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDC83E2F3D for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:39:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lum.celabo.org (lum.celabo.org [10.0.1.107]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "lum.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5612E3E2F3B for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:39:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lum.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2761B1259C0 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:39:19 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <234CFECD-0A1A-4E71-AAD8-5E3E62A86C0F@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org From: Jacques Vidrine Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:39:18 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on hellblazer.celabo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Cc: Subject: possible problem writing to SCSI tapes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:39:22 -0000 Hi Everyone, I thought I'd forward this, in case there is someone interested in working on SCSI tape support. Andrew Hume wrote in the June 2005 ";login": For outright bugs, two examples come to mind. The first is the weakness of the FreeBSD SCSI system; we cannot reliably write tapes on our FreeBSD nodes (although at least we get told about the errors!). Again, the tape is slow (5MB/s) and should not be an issue, and we can reliably write them on Linux (on more or less identical hardware). Although this is annoying, it turns out reading a tape works just fine, so we're not too annoyed. There's not further information in the article, nor is there a related PR that I can see. Perhaps someone interested can contact directly. Cheers, -- Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org