From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Aug 28 20:31: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4141737B42C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e7T3Ue612616; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:00:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:00:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Sam , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "tape is now frozen" Message-ID: <20000829130040.Q11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000809090336.F13974@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:39:03PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 8 August 2000 at 16:39:03 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote: >> >> Indeed, it looks like he omitted the message that we most wanted to >> see. >> >> Let me repeat here that I find this *very* irritating. It happens, >> for example, if I try to read a block which is too long. There's no >> way to know the length of a tape block in advance, so this is >> relatively easy to get, particularly with DDS-4 drives, and it > > This error should not occur if you're in variable block mode. If you > set the drive in fixed block mode and read a block that's too large, > the tape driver cannot know where the tape heads are located. It's > that simple. It's not that simple. If it happens in the middle of the tape, I need to rewind the bloody thing to recover. At least an fsf or bsf should be sufficient. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message