Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:41:41 +0100 From: Hauke Fath <hf@Melog.DE> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filemarks? Message-ID: <4.2.2.19991216114021.00b192a0@meloghost.melog.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912150803290.46570-100000@beppo.feral.com> References: <19991215100956.30691@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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At 08:07 15.12.99 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> > Actually, they can all write 2, but on QIC & alike (don't know for the
> > newer Tandberg MLRs) you cannot go to EOM, then backspace over the
> > second of the filemarks, and try writing from there -- you'll get a
> > `write append error'. I think all other drives can do this, and the
> > drive in question here was DDS, so it should be able to work with 2
> > FMs.
>
>Yet another reason why 1FM@EOT should be the default. Unfortunately, we
>have too many ill-informed or fanciful or contrary users to allow this (I
>tried to get this as a default for 4.0).
Matt,
in what way exactly would this affect userland tools?
(Tandberg SLR4/5, NetBSD here.)
hauke
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