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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:42:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
Message-ID:  <199601120142.CAA13537@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601112343.KAA24559@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jan 12, 96 10:43:26 am

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As David Dawes wrote:
> 
> >No idea on this.  Can you please send me the output of this command?
> 
> Here is a typical output:
> 
> Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm tape drive:
>    sense key(0x0)= no sense   residual= 0   retries= 0
>    file no= 3   block no= 0

Hmm, the sense key alone doesn't make sense. :)  It would also
require the ASC and ASCQ values, most preferably in their textual
translation.

> It never puts anything other than '0' for residual and retries, but in
> much older versions of SunOS (4.0.x, I think) it did.  What I'd like is
> to be able to do is use something like this to confirm which file mark
> the tape is at.

I think printing out the file number shouldn't be that hard a job, and
this might even be possible for QIC-02 drives.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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