From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 4 1: 7:24 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 0BD7714D1B for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (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 KAA04255; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:06:58 +0200 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991004100335.0362e370@mail.saphirsc.de> X-Sender: hf@meloghost.melog.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 10:06:57 +0200 To: John and Jennifer Reynolds From: Hauke Fath Subject: Re: new quirk entry for my seagate tape-- this time a STT20000N Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Mike Tancsa , John and Jennifer Reynolds , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14326.29994.47289.270980@localhost.primenet.com> References: <37f63490.1434693500@mail.sentex.net> 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 14:12 02.10.99 -0700, John and Jennifer Reynolds wrote: >[ On Saturday, October 2, Matthew Jacob wrote: ] > > > > Will do. Also am adding > > > > options SA_1FM_AT_EOD > > > > option so that you can just configure a kernel to default to the one > > filemark behaviour (quirks will still override). This will be in -current > > and -stable in an hour. > > > >Splendid idea! With all these blastid Seagate drives needing the quirk, it >makes sense. AFAICS, those are travan drives which are descendants of QIC. I never found a definite reference (can anybody help me out there?) but folklore seems to have it that marking EOD with *one* filemark is a QIC property -- and it should probably be tagged as such. hauke -- Hauke Fath Saphir Software GmbH D-69115 Heidelberg hf@SaphirSC.DE Ruf +49-6221-13866-35, Fax -21 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message