Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:42:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601120142.CAA13537@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601112343.KAA24559@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jan 12, 96 10:43:26 am
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As David Dawes wrote: > > >No idea on this. Can you please send me the output of this command? > > Here is a typical output: > > Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm tape drive: > sense key(0x0)= no sense residual= 0 retries= 0 > file no= 3 block no= 0 Hmm, the sense key alone doesn't make sense. :) It would also require the ASC and ASCQ values, most preferably in their textual translation. > It never puts anything other than '0' for residual and retries, but in > much older versions of SunOS (4.0.x, I think) it did. What I'd like is > to be able to do is use something like this to confirm which file mark > the tape is at. I think printing out the file number shouldn't be that hard a job, and this might even be possible for QIC-02 drives. -- 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. ;-)
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