Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:42:38 +0200 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: FreeBSD SCSI list <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC Message-ID: <19990425144238.12611@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904220944090.317-100000@feral.com>; from Matthew Jacob on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 09:54:56AM -0700 References: <199904221512.BAA10969@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904220944090.317-100000@feral.com>
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As Matthew Jacob wrote: > Frankly, the big worry spot in a lot of this has been the toe > stubbing around trying to do 2FM at EOT. Some drives support it, > some drives don't. Well, they should all support 2 FMs, but most of the QIC drives cannot overwrite the last FM subsequently (the new Tandbergs only after enabling it on some mode page), so you'd end up with 2 FMs between files in the middle of the tape, which i've always found to be plain annoying. What would break if we dropped this (except for half-inch tapes)? -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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