From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 23 15:03:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA25045 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:03:33 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA25039 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:03:33 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap To: fredriks@mcs.com (Lars Fredriksen) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:01:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, julian@tfs.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, moto@CS.cmu.edu, tinguely@plains.nodak.edu In-Reply-To: from "Lars Fredriksen" at Mar 23, 95 04:30:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1062 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > st has changed quite a bit since then it may not quite handle status info for other drives correctly any more.. it MIGHT, but then again it may not.. the actual work of merging will not be hard. just the work of checking the logic will be 90% of it.. I'm sure it will correctly do rewinds etc. for non scsi drives, it's just the status stuff. julian > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > > > > > Could you try to use "tcopy /dev/rmt0" to verify the blocksize ? > > > > > > if we distributed the 'st' utility like we should, > > > > WHAT ?? I thought that had gone in LONG time ago ??? > > > > Ok, > > unless somebody wants to merge this into "mt", really fast, I'm > > going to commit Julians code > > Did mt change a lot from 4.3 to 4.4? If not st is already a merged mt. > I created it by copying mt.c to st.c and putting in the extra stuff. > Lars > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lars Fredriksen fredriks@mcs.com (home) > lars@fredriks.pr.mcs.net (home-home) > fredriks@asiago.cs.wisc.edu >