From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 05:57:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA27428 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 05:57:32 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA27422 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 05:57:29 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id HAA02523; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:52:25 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199503301252.HAA02523@hda.com> Subject: Re: Preserving "record structure" during device writes To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:52:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 29, 95 11:45:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 532 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer writes: > > > > No, the tape drivers do I believe return short reads.. > (they DID, in 1.1.5, but it was broken in 2.0 and I'm actually in the process > of fixing it..) > > will get back to you on that :) Yes, because they count on the info field being returned from the device and not from the host adapter. Sorry I didn't make that clear. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267