From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 26 16:58:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23657 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 16:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23649 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 16:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id BAA09801; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:45:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA00677; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:33:32 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:33:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: change mt.c's status message to report QIC-320/525 ? In-Reply-To: <199610262126.XAA15283@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: X-try-apsfilter: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz X-Fax: +49 2137 2018 X-Phone: +49 2137 2020 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 <<<