From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 13:37:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB26C16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:37:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C08B43D60 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:37:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEDCC37D; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:37:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23636-07; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:37:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAADBF57; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:37:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8173D3B; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:37:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Matthew Jacob , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:37:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43A9144E.22636.E437919@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <7579f7fb0512201249k595e2eai62467a0c0e670451@mail.gmail.com> References: <200512201018.07905.kern@sibbald.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: Kern Sibbald Subject: Re: Tape drive handling on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:37:39 -0000 On 20 Dec 2005 at 12:49, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > The only problem I can imagine is if someone already uses O_NONBLOCK on an > > open() call and expects it to fail if there is no tape in the drive. This > > seems a bit unlikely, but a bit of documentation can avoid most problems. > > > > *cough* > > Documentation didn't help you :-). > > I'll try and do a bit of work on it over the next week or so but I can't > test until I get home and hook up a tape drive (and find a frickin' piece of > DTL media for it). > > Poke me periodically at my private address. I can give you access to a machine with a DLT drive attached. It's running 5.4 and it's where Kern does his regression testing. Please email me your ssh-key and if possible, the IP address[es] you use. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/