Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:14:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, fredriks@mcs.com Subject: Re: kern/1245: scsi tape driver write-protect and eject handling is broken Message-ID: <199605271714.TAA22170@yedi.iaf.nl> 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 _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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