Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 06:39:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, moto@CS.cmu.edu, tinguely@plains.nodak.edu Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Message-ID: <21330.795796754@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 95 23:39:28 PST." <m0rqyXJ-0003wOC@TFS.COM>
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> 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. Two tape frobbing commands does strike me as more than a little silly, and `mt' is the historical standard. Jordan
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