From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Dec 18 23:24:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA05440 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA05368; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA20686; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:21:13 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA18084; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:21:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id IAA26730; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:04:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612190704.IAA26730@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: misc/2242: mt blocksize 512 in Release 2.1.6 install To: jhs@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:04:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612190007.BAA15477@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Dec 19, 96 01:07:48 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Can you please confirm that the following patch obviates the > > requirement to do an additional ``mt blocksize 512'' for the TDC3800 > > and QIC-150 tapes? > > I'll build a kernel to test it, > but I recall building a release flop is a horror story that needs CVS ? > in which case I may have trouble > creating a release type boot flop , particularly as I no longer have > a working cvs tree as its outgrown my dedicated 300 M drive , You don't need an installation floppy, since the regular kernel is affected as well. If your tape is going to stream _without_ a previous read of the tape, or `mt blocksize 512', the patch did what it's supposed to do. I assume you should also see a difference in that `mt status' reports the blocksize to be 512 if you've got a QIC-150 cartridge in the drive, where i'm pretty sure it reported 0 by now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)