Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:03:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Hauke Fath <hf@Melog.DE> Cc: John and Jennifer Reynolds <jreynold@primenet.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new quirk entry for my seagate tape-- this time a STT20000N Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910041102500.55959-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991004100335.0362e370@mail.saphirsc.de>
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> > I never found a definite reference (can anybody help me out there?) but > folklore seems to have it that marking EOD with *one* filemark is a QIC > property -- and it should probably be tagged as such. It is, but it's impossible to tell a priori with some drives. It is my personal opinion that two filemarks at EOD should only be used for devices that cannot know physical EOT. Only 1/2" reel tapes come to mind on that one. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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