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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!





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