From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 9:43:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4578014A11 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:43:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03141; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:43:38 -0800 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:43:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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