From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Aug 22 9:35:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A3814BCF for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id SAA00748 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:34:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m11IaBl-000WyUC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:09:45 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: tape: can't set blocksize on Wangtek Date: 22 Aug 1999 18:12:16 +0200 Message-ID: <7pp7h0$18d$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7pk3r1$89o$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 4.0-CURRENT from a few days ago, QIC-1000 tape drive: > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device Okay, I think I'm seeing a pattern here. It seems I can successfully change the block size if there is no tape inserted. (Or after an "mt offline", which presumably amounts to the same thing even if the tape is still physically in the drive.) Changing the block size after a tape has been inserted but not yet read from works sometimes. No recognizable pattern yet. Changing the block size after the tape has been read from fails reliably. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message