Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:43:58 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC tape problems on -stable (was: hanging `tar xfvR /dev/nrst0' process, can i debug it?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904281341530.26302-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19990428210836.47084@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> WRITE FILEMARKS (with a count of >= 1) returns). So what's the > scenario where you think you really need another WRITE FILEMARKS with > a count of 0? At < 10MB/s tape transport speed you'll have data in the tape buffers for geologic time after you've finished the WRITE command (remember- you're in buffered mode) and want to read position. > > > I believe that the writers of QIC f/w should be sent to > > Redmond for the rest of their miserable lives. > > Nah, c'mon, it's just one bug in the firmware. By your terms, you > could easily throw away almost any SCSI hardware since they often > suffer more serious firmware bugs... > #&%*(#%*#%*&!!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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