Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 10:06:57 +0200 From: Hauke Fath <hf@Melog.DE> To: John and Jennifer Reynolds <jreynold@primenet.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, John and Jennifer Reynolds <jreynold@primenet.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new quirk entry for my seagate tape-- this time a STT20000N Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991004100335.0362e370@mail.saphirsc.de> In-Reply-To: <14326.29994.47289.270980@localhost.primenet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910021133160.53371-100000@beppo.feral.com> <37f63490.1434693500@mail.sentex.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910021133160.53371-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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At 14:12 02.10.99 -0700, John and Jennifer Reynolds wrote:
>[ On Saturday, October 2, Matthew Jacob wrote: ]
> >
> > Will do. Also am adding
> >
> > options SA_1FM_AT_EOD
> >
> > option so that you can just configure a kernel to default to the one
> > filemark behaviour (quirks will still override). This will be in -current
> > and -stable in an hour.
> >
>
>Splendid idea! With all these blastid Seagate drives needing the quirk, it
>makes sense.
AFAICS, those are travan drives which are descendants of QIC.
I never found a definite reference (can anybody help me out there?) but
folklore seems to have it that marking EOD with *one* filemark is a QIC
property -- and it should probably be tagged as such.
hauke
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