From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 17 13:54:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F921533B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19160; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:54:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA00858; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:54:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911172154.NAA00858@vashon.polstra.com> To: frank@exit.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver In-Reply-To: <199911160233.SAA47939@realtime.exit.com> References: <199911160233.SAA47939@realtime.exit.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199911160233.SAA47939@realtime.exit.com>, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Bob Bishop wrote: > > > BUT I have to say that on principle I'm with Rod on this one: EOF > > != EOT and mixing them up is a recipe for (inter alia) finding you > > can't read back dumps when you need them. > > Not to mention the fact that the old ANSI standard for nine-track > tapes included a double EOF to indicate EOT/EOD (and the more modern > tapes _did_ have an EOT marker). Consider me another person with > extensive tape experience chiming in _against_ this idea. You can add my voice to the chorus too. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message