From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 13:33:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09554 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [208.220.66.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09545 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11495 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:45:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199709071945.PAA11495@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: Tape question In-Reply-To: <199709071146.HAA10630@hda.hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Sep 7, 97 07:46:37 am" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:45:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This must be a problem with the Exabyte then... > > Or something in the specific host adapter driver. I take that back, since the residual is coming back in the sense data when the ILI bit is set. I know some exabytes work properly - Alliant used exabytes and had a program that would figure out the structure of a tape by doing long reads. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval