From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Apr 25 5:51:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693ED14D53 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 05:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id OAA20321; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:50:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA27793; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:42:38 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990425144238.12611@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:42:38 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: FreeBSD SCSI list Cc: Stephen McKay Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199904221512.BAA10969@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 09:54:56AM -0700 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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