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Date:      Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:44:38 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: Tape driver problems 
Message-ID:  <199912030244.MAA04138@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021007560.369-100000@semuta.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 10:10:49 -0800"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021007560.369-100000@semuta.feral.com>

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On Thursday, 2nd December 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:

>> "mt status" with no tape loaded gives an error:
>> 
>> mt: /dev/nrsa0: Device not configured
>> 
>> which seems a bit harsh.  Also the kernel logs error messages like:
>
>Yes, let me think about the error a bit. It may be more a question of
>changing 'mt' to report something other than just perror.

I think 'Device not configured' should be reserved for when the device
is truly non-existent, not just when it has no tape.

>I'll have to check what happened here. Do you have CAMDEBUG defined?

Hmm.  That looks like the sort of thing I might do. ;-)  I'll confirm
tonight to see if this is my fault.

>Hmm, indeed. The density determining code does indeed issue a read of
>MAXPHYS bytes. It seems to me that all HBA's should at least support that!
>The maintainer for the 1542X will have to speak to this tho...

I'll help with fixing the 1542B devices.  I have lots of them!

Stephen.


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