From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 07:19:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA26027 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:19:56 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA26006 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:19:50 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA24149; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:19:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA02743; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:19:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA00703; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:17:13 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511041517.QAA00703@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More nits To: grog@lemis.de Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:17:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511041249.NAA18974@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 4, 95 01:49:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1370 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > 3. J\(:org hasn't seen this problem before. You mention QIC-150s--do > you use them in non-rewinding mode? This question doens't make > any sense unless you're talking about /dev/nrstX--otherwise you'd > expect it to rewind when it closes. Of course, i do. I use the non-rewind device for incremental backups from small partitions (like ``/''). After seeing the problem report, and Stefan Esser's reply, i've done explicit checking by writing a few hundred kilobytes to the tape and playing with the non-rewind device. Everything behaved as expected for me. This is with FreeBSD-current. I'm also using the non-rewind device occasionally to append something to a tape (e.g. since i forgot to include it in the first place.) I'm also using an HP-DAT drive at work on a 2.0.5 system (i forgot the exact drive type, it's a 2GB/4GB drive). This drive is used in auto- rewind mode for the nightly backup, and in non-rewind mode for numerous additional backups. I never ran into trouble that i could blame the tape driver for. (Although the ahc driver on 2.0.5 caused me some grief, and Justin asked me to replace it by a newer version; i'll wait for 2.1 however.) -- 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. ;-)