Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:01:16 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape drive position Message-ID: <19990220020117.4326.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net> of Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:40:21 CST References: <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> The only way I know to ID a compressed tape is to put it > in a DDS drive which doesn't support compression and see what happens. > Same for Irix and FreeBSD. One problem with the method is that, on several BSD variants and with at least two brands of DDS-1 (no compression) drives, what happens is a system lockup. This is the only thing (apart from my own stupidity) that has ever forced me to reboot a BSD system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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