From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 18 23:24:19 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA28547 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:24:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA28541 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:24:17 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10668; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:24:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA16926; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:24:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA09188; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:20:21 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506190620.IAA09188@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: misc/530: Failed install from SCSI tape To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:20:20 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199506182030.NAA01859@freefall.cdrom.com> from "deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org" at Jun 18, 95 01:30:02 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 567 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org wrote: > > > Either fix the documentation (?) or the SCSI tape driver. Correcting the > documentation is simple, but it seems like you'd really like to be able > to handle tapes of default block size. This is not a problem with the SCSI driver -- it can handle all tape block sizes your tape drive can. It's just an oversight (IMHO) in the documentation for the installation process. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)