Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 09:27:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DAT question/problem! Message-ID: <19971227092711.09423@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <34A49B87.6C60@3-cities.com>; from Mark Smith on Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 10:09:11PM -0800 References: <34A3530D.590@3-cities.com> <19971226162002.29967@uriah.heep.sax.de> <34A49B87.6C60@3-cities.com>
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As Mark Smith wrote: > OK, so in the meantime, just write until I hit EIO, keeping track > of the number of written blocks, then rewind and reread the same > number SHOULD work? I think so. You can also verify the kernel message to see whether it indicates the end-of-medium detection, or a hard write fault instead. > This is REAL fun testing this kind of code on a 90m tape on an > older DDS-1 10M/min drive! <G> 200 minutes (3 hours 20 min) write > then the same for a read. Ain't a new cassette cheaper than 6 hours of work? ;-) -- 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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