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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:58:30 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mtio questions
Message-ID:  <20010813105830.A10524@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <3B76CF21.C6915AB0@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:46:57AM -0700
References:  <20010812140406.A7326@cicely20.cicely.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108121753040.65085-100000@beppo> <20010812140406.A7326@cicely20.cicely.de> <3B76CF21.C6915AB0@mindspring.com>

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On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> > Another point:
> > Can we '#define MTEOM MTEOD' as MTEOM is used on NetBSD and Solaris?
> 
> "End of Message" is not the same as "End of Data" for some
> drives; this could break old 8-track (no, not the music, and
> not a typeo for "9-track"!) drives, e.g. Zilog and Cypher.

Well that's what Solaris 8 sys/mtio.h tells about MTEOM:
#define MTEOM           10      /* position to end of media */
And here NetBSD 1.5:
#define MTEOM           10      /* forward to end of media */

Neither of them is saying "Message".

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > Another point:
> > Can we '#define MTEOM MTEOD' as MTEOM is used on NetBSD and Solaris?
> 
> Why?

Please correct me if I'm wrong:
If I want to append to a tape I would MTEOM on Solaris and MTEOD on
FreeBSD so it's supposed to be used for the same reason.
None of the OS I looked into had both.

But well - that's what HP-UX define:
#define MTEOD   8       /* DDS, QIC and 8MM only - seek to end-of-data */

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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