Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:37:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/81225: wrong QIC tape dimensions Message-ID: <200505182137.j4ILbbJ3041888@82-168-79-254-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl> Resent-Message-ID: <200505182140.j4ILe2uE065096@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81225
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: wrong QIC tape dimensions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 18 21:40:01 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rene Ladan
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 82-168-79-254-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Sun May 15 21:59:42 CEST 2005 root@82-168-79-254-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENE i386
>Description:
The dimensions for the QIC tape media are off by a factor of 10.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the backups-tapebackups-qic section in the Storage chapter of the Handbook.
>Fix:
Patch for revision 1.235
--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml Wed May 4 23:26:07 2005
+++ chapter.sgml Wed May 18 23:31:27 2005
@@ -2054,8 +2054,8 @@
large number of densities on physically similar (sometimes identical)
tapes. QIC drives are not quiet. These drives audibly seek before
they begin to record data and are clearly audible whenever reading,
- writing or seeking. QIC tapes measure (6 x 4 x 0.7 inches; 15.2 x
- 10.2 x 1.7 mm).</para>
+ writing or seeking. QIC tapes measure (6 x 4 x 0.7 inches; 152 x
+ 102 x 17 mm).</para>
<para>Data throughput ranges from ~150 kB/s to ~500 kB/s. Data capacity
ranges from 40 MB to 15 GB. Hardware compression is available on many
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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