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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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