From owner-cvs-all Tue May 4 12: 7:53 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FD514FA3; Tue, 4 May 1999 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14002; Tue, 4 May 1999 12:07:43 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:07:43 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Guy Helmer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/mt mt.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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. > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message