Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:16:08 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New problem with <ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462 -007> under -current Message-ID: <19981217071608.34321@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812160840560.11079-100000@feral-gw>; from Matthew Jacob on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:43:19AM -0800 References: <13943.52451.453181.907266@moran.grauel.com> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812160840560.11079-100000@feral-gw>
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As Matthew Jacob wrote: > The write is in variable mode (of all things>. It needs to be in fixed > block mode. Hmm, weird. I thought everything >= QIC 320 would grok variable mode? Apparently not. > (which, IIRC, isn't really variable in that it still has > to be modulo 512). At least for the Tandbergs, it's truely variable. There even seems to be a variable-mode standard for QIC-150, but it's a waste of space (IIRC they're writing another full 512-bytes block per each 512 bytes in order to record variable-length information). Everything >= 320 is documented to allow `true variable' mode there, albeit it will be sliced in blocks of no more than 1024 bytes on the tape. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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