Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:43:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911150941260.9192-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911150931440.9192-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Reread/reresponse, sorry- ENOCOFFEE: > > > > 1 filemark can not be used for EOT, it is EOF, you can't tell if what you > > read next is another file or not that may have been left by a previosly > > longer usage on the tape. > > Well, read until *BLANK CHECK* seems to be what the driver can and should do. Let me ponder this some- I believe what I propose actually works fine for all the devices we currently support (hell, I use it all the time myself). If you can provide an actual example of a SCSI tape device that if you take FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD-3.3 and do a 'mt seteotmodel 1' on and *not* be able to detect EOT, let me know! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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