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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:19:40 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: HP T4000s tape drive 
Message-ID:  <199609280319.UAA17845@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 01:05:20 %2B0200." <199609272305.BAA13439@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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>> The other changes are to increase SCSI_2_MAX_DENSITY_CODE from 0x17
>
>MAX_DENSITY_CODE should be killed.  I think we were already consent on
>this, but nobody did the deed by now.  Well, mmmaybe it's already in
>Justin's ongoing SCSI work.

st.c:
revision 1.70
date: 1996/06/24 04:54:32;  author: gibbs;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -10
Ensure that media protection is released before attempting to eject the
media in all cases.

Remove SCSI_2_MAX_DENSITY_CODE definition and rely on the device to tell
us if we attempt an invalid setting.

Closes PR 1245.

>> (not essential, since you can't change the density of this drive) and
>> add a SCSI_SILENT flag to the scsi_prevent call in st_mount_tape().
>
>PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL is optional by the SCSI-2 specs, so we
>should perhaps really make the call to it `silent'.

I'll add it to the list of things to look at when I'm working on the
st driver.

>-- 
>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. ;-)

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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