From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 20 03:45:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA18404 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 03:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.local (slip139-92-42-164.emea.ibm.net [139.92.42.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA18393 Sat, 20 Jan 1996 03:45:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.jhs.local (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA00536; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:11:09 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:11:09 +0100 (MET) From: "Julian Stacey jhs@freebsd.org" Message-Id: <199601182311.AAA00536@vector.jhs.local> To: Robert Withrow cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. (Internet Unix & C Consultants) Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (pending reconfig) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH version 1.6.5 95 12 11 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:03:23 EST." <199601050103.UAA21083@spooky.rwwa.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk -------- Sorry this got delayed .... Hi, Reference: > From: Robert Withrow > Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:03:23 -0500 > Message-id: <199601050103.UAA21083@spooky.rwwa.com> > > And one more: > > I don't see any way to retension a qic-150 tape with mt. ``mt eom'' > doesn't go to the end, and cating the device to /dev/null is > problematic when the tape actually *needs* to be retensioned (as > in you get errors reading...). > Some time back I wrote a tool for testing & sizing tape media, it will optionaly rewind & such too, it's one of my collection of tools that compiles & run on FreeBSD & (Ugh) DOS I'm sending you a mail with it (16K uuencoded testblock.c Makefile testblock.1, to you only to avoid flooding list) I'd be quite happy to release it under the standard UCB/BSD rights style header. Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/