From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 26 14:41:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13183 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13165 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA05874; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:40:52 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA15224; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:40:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA15283; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:26:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610262126.XAA15283@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: change mt.c's status message to report QIC-320/525 ? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:26:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Andreas Klemm at "Oct 26, 96 03:15:12 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andreas Klemm wrote: > After inserting a DC-6525 tape the mt status command reports > QIC-320, which is the QIC standard and capacity writing on > a DC 6320 tape which has only 620 feet length. > Wouldn't it a bit more user friendly, to report something like > this !? > > Present Mode: Density = QIC-320/525 Blocksize variable Perhaps the man page should make it clearer that there are tapes of different lengths around. > BTW, does somebody have a list of densities / mode descriptions > above 0x17 ?! The list inside mt.c has been taken directly from the SCSI-2 specs (that's why some of the density names are really funny). If someone else has a list of _officially_ assigned density values (and their respective names), i would not mind integrating it. However, i'm reluctant against mentioning every vendor's private oddball density value there. -- 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. ;-)