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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:31:54 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD SCSI list <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: i/o error with larger QIC 
Message-ID:  <199904252331.SAA39140@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>  of "Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:43:46 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904251542290.12855-100000@feral.com> 

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Matthew Jacob writes:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, J Wunsch wrote:
> > 
> > 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).

That reminds me, I have some tcopy changes I need to send-pr tomorrow 
when I can get to the machine where my diffs are. Basically two 
simple things: counters are u_long and don't count correctly past 4G. 
The other is when target or destination is a file and you are doing 
"copy-verify" the tape ioctl() won't rewind a file.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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