From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 12:58:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11084 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11075 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA04247; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:43:49 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199812142043.VAA04247@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: (Re: Can't access tapes with scsi_sa.c r1.7) (LONG) Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:25:39 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:43:48 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message