From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Aug 12 21: 7:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [199.86.35.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383C337BDC5 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.8.5/1.1) id XAA21754; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:07:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:07:22 -0500 From: john@dexter.starfire.mn.org (John) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Exabyte vendor-specific commands? X-Mailer: Mutt 0.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a number of tapes written on a Exabyte 8200 which I now wish to reuse on an Exabyte 8500. It works, but they continue to be written in 8200 mode, which doesn't have the density, performance, or QUICK SEEK features that I desire. I have dug around some, and apparently Arcserve has a function called "Quick Erase Plus" which will do this. It must be issuing one (or more) SCSI commands to the drive to accomplish this. If I had those commands, I'm confident of my ability to either use SCSI passthrough or write a custom ioctl to accomplish this. I have written to Exabyte, and though I got an incident number, the silence has been deafening since. Anybody have any light to shed on this one? Thanks! -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message