Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 23:37:10 GMT From: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Message-ID: <199503212337.XAA06510@genesis.tiac.net>
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> > Two tape frobbing commands does strike me as more than a little silly, > > and `mt' is the historical standard. > > 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. Ugh. Ft is very different from mt/st so currently dropping it or rolling it into the ft driver is impossible. Rolling it into a generic tape command isn't a good idea either since at the moment I'm working on changing the driver to behave like a regular mt device with a fixed 1K blocksize. If I can squeeze decent performance out of it and the driver doesn't become extremely huge, hopefully it will vanish. - Steve steve2@genesis.tiac.net
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