Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:07:43 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/mt mt.1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905041204470.13803-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905041151110.13803-100000@feral.com>
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> I haven't checked this change yet (freefall seems to be down again), but I
> can assure you I'm really pissed off if somebody changed hardware block to
> SCSI logical block- the terms were specifically and precisely chosen. The
> author of the change should check with someone who knows first.
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> SCSI logical block is one method of tape positioning. Hardware block is
> another. Confusing the two by making random edits is not good.
Okay, I was a precipitate idiot - the change is a good change and
clarifies *my* idiocy....
To address Ken's query- no, in the context of the man page it's going to
be SCSI logical block position. If this works on a non-SCSI drive (ATAPI),
then it'll only be if the ATAPI drive accepts the {GET,SET}{H,S}POS
ioctls- which are SCSI specific.
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