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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




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