Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:33:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: change mt.c's status message to report QIC-320/525 ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961027012757.414B-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199610262126.XAA15283@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > > 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. I think it looks smarter to see both possible capacities in the status display. And since there are only two different capacities possible, it wouldn't be too hard to integrate this. > > 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. I think the values for the TDC 4222 are certainly something like a quasi standard, or is it really vendor specific ?! -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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