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Date:      Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:01:16 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tape drive position 
Message-ID:  <19990220020117.4326.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net>  of Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:40:21 CST
References:  <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net> 

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> The only way I know to ID a compressed tape is to put it 
> in a DDS drive which doesn't support compression and see what happens. 
> Same for Irix and FreeBSD.

One problem with the method is that, on several BSD variants and
with at least two brands of DDS-1 (no compression) drives, what
happens is a system lockup.  This is the only thing (apart from
my own stupidity) that has ever forced me to reboot a BSD system.



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