Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:38:34 +0200 From: William Wanders <wwanders@sci.kun.nl> To: steve2@genesis.tiac.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: floppy tape formatting Message-ID: <199504241138.NAA07287@studs.sci.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <199504240513.BAA24339@genesis.tiac.net> (steve2@genesis.tiac.net)
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 01:13:19 -0400
From: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines)
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Good news. I've got floppy tape formatting working on my 1.1.5.1 system.
(Bye bye DOS!) I'm going to be putting together a 2.0-current patch set
over the next couple of days but before I submit it I'd like to get a few
testers to check it out. If you've got some time (and maybe an unformatted
tape :-)) send me a message with the following information and I'll send
you the 2.x patches:
Thats wonderfull !!! And yes i can make some time free to test it :-)
Your email address: wwanders@sci.kun.nl
Tape drive manufacturer and model: IOMega 420 MB
QIC-40 or QIC-80: QIC-40 (read only) QIC-80 & QIC-WIDE
Tape length(s) you use: 307.5ft and 400ft (WIDE)
(Need the info so I can try and get a variety of hardware.)
Thanks!
- Steve
steve2@genesis.tiac.net
Question1:I'm trying to modify ft in such a way that i can use
more backups on a single tape. Currently i'm using the
volume table for that. But i currently dont have the
standards at hand (letter to QIC standards is on the mail)
is the volumetable a correct segment only ? like the headers ?
Question2:Would it be a good idea to incorperate volumetables also
in the driver? Eg commands like 'mt fsf 2' could easily
be done with the data inside the volumetable.
William Wanders (wwanders@sci.kun.nl)
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