Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:33:14 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver Message-ID: <199911160233.SAA47939@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <l03020904b45644410c81@[194.32.164.2]> from Bob Bishop at "Nov 15, 1999 11:20:19 pm"
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Bob Bishop wrote: > At 11:01 am -0800 15/11/99, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >I repeat what I said in other mail- can you actually show me a tape drive > >where what I propose really doesn't work? > BUT I have to say that on principle I'm with Rod on this one: EOF != EOT > and mixing them up is a recipe for (inter alia) finding you can't read back > dumps when you need them. Not to mention the fact that the old ANSI standard for nine-track tapes included a double EOF to indicate EOT/EOD (and the more modern tapes _did_ have an EOT marker). Consider me another person with extensive tape experience chiming in _against_ this idea. And, yes, "blank check" means something entirely different from EOT. Conflating the two opens up a real can of worms. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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