From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 13:52:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04689 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04674 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA05537 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:52:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA05805 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:52:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA06980 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:37:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601102137.WAA06980@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:37:16 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601101029.UAA09177@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 10, 96 08:59:16 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > Likewise 8) IIRC, it was about rewind times for tape streamers. For > reference (in case someone faster hasn't given these numbers already) : > > Rewind times for a Tandberg TDC3660: 62 seconds for a DC6150, 136 seconds > for a DC6250. The code inside the function st_load() which i was using to implement the MTRETENS ioctl command did already have a timeout of five minutes. This seems to be sufficient. For those who don't follow the commit mails, the ``mt retens'' command is in -current now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)