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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:52:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Preserving "record structure" during device writes
Message-ID:  <199503301252.HAA02523@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0ruEuv-0003vwC@TFS.COM> from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 29, 95 11:45:20 pm

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Julian Elischer writes:
> 
> > 
> No, the tape drivers do I believe return short reads..
> (they DID, in 1.1.5, but it was broken in 2.0 and I'm actually in the process
> of fixing it..)
> 
> will get back to you on that :)

Yes, because they count on the info field being returned from the
device and not from the host adapter.  Sorry I didn't make that
clear.

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Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
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