From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun May 26 10:24:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05328 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 26 May 1996 10:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05305 for ; Sun, 26 May 1996 10:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA01666; Sun, 26 May 1996 19:24:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA19142; Sun, 26 May 1996 19:23:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA02378; Sun, 26 May 1996 18:57:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605261657.SAA02378@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kern/1245: scsi tape driver write-protect and eject handling is broken To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 18:57:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fredriks@mcs.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605261114.NAA09075@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 26, 96 01:14:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wilko Bulte wrote: > Something like the following: > > - mt should have a way to find out if a tape is SCSI or not > (ioctl that works on SCSI dev but not on other tapes ?) > - mt should have a way to get inquiry string from the tape > - mt should have a 'tapecap' file to know what is valid for a particular > drive, compression and all. It can now also display the density settings > that are non-SCSI-2 standard in an ASCII strings iso in hex. I don't mind you implementing it. 8-) -- 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. ;-)