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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:43:48 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: (Re: Can't access tapes with scsi_sa.c r1.7) (LONG) 
Message-ID:  <199812142043.VAA04247@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:25:39 %2B0100." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812131312120.10954-100000@feral-gw> 

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Matthew Jacob writes:
>
>
>Well, I've been looking over this, and a preliminary check seems to
>indicate to me that the driver is, in fact, doing what it is supposed to
>do. Now, wait, don't start throwing things yet.. :-)
>
>The simple fix for all of you is to explicitly set variable mode (mt
>blocksize 0) on your tape device *if you want it to be in variable record
>length mode*, but see.
>

YES !!! that makes it work. Thanks for the suggestion.

If you can make it work by default that would be even better.

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Gary Jennejohn
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