Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:02:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape question Message-ID: <199709072302.QAA23834@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970908001704.DW50899@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 8, 97 00:17:04 am
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> > 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. That's about what I said in my original response posting as well: it behaves in a manner which is consistent with many other systems, so it's not technically a bug. On the other hand, I could see where partial block reads could be useful, especially now that he has a bunch of legacy tapes he needs to be able to read. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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