Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:55:18 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: marijn@stack.nl Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SEEK command or locate tape position Message-ID: <199806051855.MAA07259@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <19980605192617.15017@hoop.student.tue.nl> from Marijn Meijles at "Jun 5, 98 07:26:17 pm"
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Marijn Meijles wrote... > hi, > > I just bought a HP-DAT drive. It works great, except for searching > within archives. When I use Linux, there is a program called dds2tar > that uses a MTSEEK call to position the heads within an archive so it > can extract files very quickly. However, fbsd does not have this. Is > there a patch that either implements a seek command or let's you read > the current position of the heads? > Oh, I use FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de> is working on putting fast locate and read position support into the CAM tape driver. Once he finishes that work, it will be available in CAM. The CAM snapshots are released for both current and stable, so you'll be able to run them on your system. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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