From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 04:38:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA01730 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 04:38:50 -0700 Received: from wn1.sci.kun.nl (wn1.sci.kun.nl [131.174.8.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA01720 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 04:38:41 -0700 Received: from studs.sci.kun.nl by wn1.sci.kun.nl via studs.sci.kun.nl [131.174.124.5] with ESMTP id NAA21551 (8.6.10/2.9); Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:38:36 +0200 From: William Wanders Received: by studs.sci.kun.nl id NAA07287 (8.6.10/2.1); Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:38:34 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:38:34 +0200 Message-Id: <199504241138.NAA07287@studs.sci.kun.nl> To: steve2@genesis.tiac.net CC: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <199504240513.BAA24339@genesis.tiac.net> (steve2@genesis.tiac.net) Subject: Re: floppy tape formatting Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 01:13:19 -0400 From: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)