From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 9 11:56:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27229 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27216 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.203]) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA23596 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:56:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de (8.8.7/8.7.3) id UAA02637; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:56:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970909205639.PN18751@ida.interface-business.de> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:56:39 +0200 From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape question References: <19970909162235.DF18120@ida.interface-business.de> <199709091849.LAA29705@usr04.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709091849.LAA29705@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 9, 1997 18:49:20 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I'm *really* not trying to be contentious here, but I have to ask... > > How did you verify that the BSD device driver was not padding records > on write? You should have watched the output of my program when i first posted it. I was re-reading the records from the tape, and got the exact amount of bytes that have been written. If the driver (or the device) would have padded any data, how should it have been possible to e.g. get a 33333-byte record from the tape in return? Besides, i basically know the BSD driver doesn't do it, from UTSLing. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j