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Date:      Sun, 26 May 1996 18:57:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fredriks@mcs.com
Subject:   Re: kern/1245: scsi tape driver write-protect and eject handling is broken
Message-ID:  <199605261657.SAA02378@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605261114.NAA09075@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 26, 96 01:14:19 pm"

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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
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