Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:43:46 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD SCSI list <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904251542290.12855-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19990425144238.12611@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, J Wunsch wrote: > 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)? tcopy, but that could be fixed. Basically anything that assumed two sequential filemarks is EOT (rather than basing it on information content). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the messagehelp
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