From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 5 1:45:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from meloghost.melog.de (meloghost.melog.de [193.155.17.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A02F150B0 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 01:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hf@Melog.DE) Received: from janus (janus.melog.de [193.155.17.21]) by meloghost.melog.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09349; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:44:44 +0200 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991005104319.036414c0@mail.saphirsc.de> X-Sender: hf@meloghost.melog.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:44:44 +0200 To: mjacob@feral.com From: Hauke Fath Subject: Re: new quirk entry for my seagate tape-- this time a STT20000N Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19991004100335.0362e370@mail.saphirsc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:03 04.10.99 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > I never found a definite reference (can anybody help me out there?) but > > folklore seems to have it that marking EOD with *one* filemark is a QIC > > property -- and it should probably be tagged as such. > >It is, but it's impossible to tell a priori with some drives. > >It is my personal opinion that two filemarks at EOD should only be used >for devices that cannot know physical EOT. Only 1/2" reel tapes come to >mind on that one. So 2FM should be the exception and not the default (as it is in NetBSD)? Sounds reasonable. hauke -- Hauke Fath Saphir Software GmbH D-69115 Heidelberg hf@SaphirSC.DE Ruf +49-6221-13866-35, Fax -21 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message