From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 19:25:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7193117B1 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 4327 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Feb 1999 02:01:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19990220020117.4326.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:01:16 +1000 From: Greg Black To: David Kelly Cc: Jon Drukman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape drive position References: <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-reply-to: <199902200040.SAA81105@nospam.hiwaay.net> of Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:40:21 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message