Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:17:04 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape question Message-ID: <19970908001704.DW50899@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970907133303.28359G-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>; from Brian N. Handy on Sep 7, 1997 13:37:16 -0700 References: <199709072013.NAA25379@usr07.primenet.com> <Pine.OSF.3.96.970907133303.28359G-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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As Brian N. Handy wrote: > Maybe more information would be useful here, I'm not sure. I'll detail a > bit better the situation as I know it: > > 1. The tapes were written on a Sun box. (FWIW, they're Solar > Magnetogram data from the Mees Solar Observatory in Hawaii. I don't > mean to sound proprietary, I'm assuredly not.) I can't say as to > whether it's SunOS or Solaris, though I could find out Monday. > The tapes are old and already written with partial block writes. Sorry, i neither have an Exabyte available right now, nor could i try it immediately on a Sun. (If at all, only under Solaris.) My only point was to prove that the FreeBSD st(4) driver behaves as i would expect it. -- 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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