From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 15:20:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA14139 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA14116 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA25570 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:20:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA12772; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:17:04 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970908001704.DW50899@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:17:04 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape question References: <199709072013.NAA25379@usr07.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Brian N. Handy on Sep 7, 1997 13:37:16 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > Maybe more information would be useful here, I'm not sure. I'll detail a > bit better the situation as I know it: > > 1. The tapes were written on a Sun box. (FWIW, they're Solar > Magnetogram data from the Mees Solar Observatory in Hawaii. I don't > mean to sound proprietary, I'm assuredly not.) I can't say as to > whether it's SunOS or Solaris, though I could find out Monday. > The tapes are old and already written with partial block writes. Sorry, i neither have an Exabyte available right now, nor could i try it immediately on a Sun. (If at all, only under Solaris.) My only point was to prove that the FreeBSD st(4) driver behaves as i would expect it. -- 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. ;-)