From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 18:33:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F32314BC2 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime.exit.com [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15106; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:33:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA47939; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:33:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199911160233.SAA47939@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver In-Reply-To: from Bob Bishop at "Nov 15, 1999 11:20:19 pm" To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:33:14 -0800 (PST) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes), current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: frank@exit.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Bishop wrote: > At 11:01 am -0800 15/11/99, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >I repeat what I said in other mail- can you actually show me a tape drive > >where what I propose really doesn't work? > BUT I have to say that on principle I'm with Rod on this one: EOF != EOT > and mixing them up is a recipe for (inter alia) finding you can't read back > dumps when you need them. Not to mention the fact that the old ANSI standard for nine-track tapes included a double EOF to indicate EOT/EOD (and the more modern tapes _did_ have an EOT marker). Consider me another person with extensive tape experience chiming in _against_ this idea. And, yes, "blank check" means something entirely different from EOT. Conflating the two opens up a real can of worms. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message