From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 17:04:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA05513 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:04:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05482 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA21083 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:03:23 -0500 Message-Id: <199601050103.UAA21083@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: spooky.rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 12:08:43 EST." <199601041708.MAA27564@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:03:23 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk And one more: I don't see any way to retension a qic-150 tape with mt. ``mt eom'' doesn't go to the end, and cating the device to /dev/null is problematic when the tape actually *needs* to be retensioned (as in you get errors reading...). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM