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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:45:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filemarks?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121743090.43362-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <E11xHaD-0001i2-00@rip.psg.com>

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Yes, but it didn't complain about this. This particular HP is an ancient
DDS-1 DAT drive, I believe.

I don't know why it behaved the way it did, and w/o more kernel messages,
can't say more. I asked about whether it was in 'fixed' as opposed to
'variable' mode because filemarks are handled internally slightly
differently- but still, doesn't seem like this could be anything but bum
h/w.


On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Usually, there are two filemarks written to the tape, but there are devices
> > ``that can only write 1'' (man page for mt, there is furtter informations).
> > You could try ``mt geteotmodel'' to see what's the driver's opinion about
> > which model it uses currently.
> 
> # mt -f /dev/rsa0 geteotmodel  
> /dev/rsa0: the model is 2 filemarks at EOT
> 
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