From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 16:04:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA11240 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:04:55 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA11186 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:02:31 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28482; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:28:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id AAA08257; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:28:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA05866; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:28:30 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503212328.AAA05866@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap To: jbryant@server.iadfw.net Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:28:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503212146.PAA23793@server.iadfw.net> from "jbryant@server.iadfw.net" at Mar 21, 95 03:46:52 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 910 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As jbryant@server.iadfw.net wrote: > > In reply: > > Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap > > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:27:12 -0800 > > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > > > > > Actually, there are three tape commands mt, st, and ft. If st is > > > eliminated on historical grounds, then ft should also suffer the same > > > fate. > > > > Wrong. mt & st are control commands. ft should vanish into the device > > driver itself. > > Exactly what do you mean by that? I have been hacking a FULLY QIC compat > backup/restore [i.e., QIC-40/80, and 113 style filesets] program for some > time now for FreeBSD. Would such a change in any way effect my work? IMHO it were better hacking the ft driver doing read/write/strategy IO. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)