From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 13:44:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16197 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:41:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16192 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03666; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:38:16 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:38:16 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Gary Jennejohn cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: (Re: Can't access tapes with scsi_sa.c r1.7) (LONG) In-Reply-To: <199812142043.VAA04247@peedub.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. Good! > > If you can make it work by default that would be even better. > Yes, I have prototype code not checked in that forces variable mode except for some specific devices (reintroduces also the SA_QUIRK_FIXED and SA_QUIRK_VARIABLE for scsi_sa) -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message