From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 16 2:41:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from meloghost.melog.de (meloghost.melog.de [193.155.17.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799CE14F23 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:41:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hf@Melog.DE) Received: from janus (janus.melog.de [193.155.17.21]) by meloghost.melog.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18477; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:41:27 +0100 Message-Id: <4.2.2.19991216114021.00b192a0@meloghost.melog.de> X-Sender: hf@meloghost.melog.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:41:41 +0100 To: mjacob@feral.com From: Hauke Fath Subject: Re: filemarks? Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <19991215100956.30691@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Hauke Fath Tangro Software Components GmbH D-69115 Heidelberg hf@Tangro.DE Ruf +49-6221-13336-35, Fax -21 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message