From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 17:53:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13850 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13844 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:53:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA02573 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:53:27 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA21453 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:53:27 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id CAA13537 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:42:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601120142.CAA13537@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:42:42 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601112343.KAA24559@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jan 12, 96 10:43:26 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)