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Subject: Re: kern/1245: scsi tape driver write-protect and eject handling is broken
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:14:55 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, fredriks@mcs.com
In-Reply-To: <199605261657.SAA02378@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 26, 96 06:57:15 pm
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As J Wunsch wrote...

> As Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > Something like the following:
> > 
> > - mt should have a way to find out if a tape is SCSI or not
> >   (ioctl that works on SCSI dev but not on other tapes ?)
> > - mt should have a way to get inquiry string from the tape
> > - mt should have a 'tapecap' file to know what is valid for a particular
> >   drive, compression and all. It can now also display the density settings
> >   that are non-SCSI-2 standard in an ASCII strings iso in hex.
> 
> I don't mind you implementing it. 8-)

I guessed that one :) But you left off my last remark about 'gross
overkill'. 

I only run the R FreeBSDs, not current. This makes hacks on -current
stuff even more unlikely.

But kidding aside: isn't the most simple and elegant(?) way to solve
the issue getting rid of the density checks in st.c?

Wilko
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