Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 07:39:50 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Message-ID: <199503221339.HAA13328@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199503220015.AAA06755@genesis.tiac.net> from "Steve Gerakines" at Mar 22, 95 00:15:44 am
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> One concern I have is regarding tape length. It > looks like dump wants to calculate the tape length in advance to avoid > reaching end of media. QIC-40/80 tape drives have a variable number > of blocks, depending upon how many have been marked bad, so how would > I get a decent length? You have to estimate. Streaming tape drives have variable size, too, depending on how much they stream. This is pretty much a standard problem in tape drives in general, apart from the old 9-tracks where you had good random access. > Is it a problem for dump to just fall off the > end of the tape? NO more than on any other tape device.
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