Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:17:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: grog@lemis.de Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511041517.QAA00703@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511041249.NAA18974@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 4, 95 01:49:46 pm
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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. ;-)
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