Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:11:09 +0100 (MET) From: "Julian Stacey jhs@freebsd.org" <jhs@vector.jhs.local> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601182311.AAA00536@vector.jhs.local> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:03:23 EST." <199601050103.UAA21083@spooky.rwwa.com>
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-------- Sorry this got delayed .... Hi, Reference: > From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> > 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/
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