Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:40:38 -0800 (PST) From: Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: julian@tfs.com, phk@ref.tfs.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, moto@CS.cmu.edu, tinguely@plains.nodak.edu Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Message-ID: <199503211740.JAA14482@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <21330.795796754@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 06:39:14 am
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > > if we distributed the 'st' utility like we should, > > you could run > > > > st -f /dev/nrst0 status > > > > and we could see the mode the device was operating in. > > that would tell us a lot about the possible causes.. > > then you can use the scsi(1) or is that scsi(8) command > > to turn on debugging on the tape > > and see what it's being asked to do..... > > scsi(8) is in current, > > I include st(1) here so you can try it out > > it should be in the source tree (next to mt(1)) but appears to be missing.. > > I was under the impression that we were going to merge st and mt together, > and that this was the reason for not bringing st over in the first place. I was under the impression that st was removed from 2.0-RELEASE because of the impending merge. It is a rather dubious practice to remove a very useful utility from the tree because its features will someday be superceded by another utility. st is sorely missed. > Two tape frobbing commands does strike me as more than a little silly, > and `mt' is the historical standard. Actually, there are three tape commands mt, st, and ft. If st is eliminated on historical grounds, then ft should also suffer the same fate. -- Steven G. Kargl | Phone: 206-685-4677 | Applied Physics Laboratory | Fax: 206-543-6785 | University of Washington |---------------------| 1013 NE 40th St | FreeBSD 2.1-current | Seattle, WA 98105 |---------------------|
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