From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jun 5 10:27:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04731 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unox.student.tue.nl (unox.student.tue.nl [131.155.210.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04631 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marijn@stack.nl) Received: from hoop.student.tue.nl (hoop.student.tue.nl [192.168.0.1]) by unox.student.tue.nl (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00938 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:26:29 +0200 Received: (from marijn@localhost) by hoop.student.tue.nl (8.8.7/8.8.3) id TAA01815; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:26:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980605192617.15017@hoop.student.tue.nl> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:26:17 +0200 From: Marijn Meijles To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SEEK command or locate tape position Reply-To: marijn@stack.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, I just bought a HP-DAT drive. It works great, except for searching within archives. When I use Linux, there is a program called dds2tar that uses a MTSEEK call to position the heads within an archive so it can extract files very quickly. However, fbsd does not have this. Is there a patch that either implements a seek command or let's you read the current position of the heads? Oh, I use FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. -- Marijn --- Waiting for inspiration is a big frustration To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message