Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:43:18 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Hauke Fath <hf@Melog.DE> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filemarks? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912160840420.48124-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.19991216114021.00b192a0@meloghost.melog.de>
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Hauke Fath wrote: > At 08:07 15.12.99 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Actually, they can all write 2, but on QIC & alike (don't know for the > > > newer Tandberg MLRs) you cannot go to EOM, then backspace over the > > > second of the filemarks, and try writing from there -- you'll get a > > > `write append error'. I think all other drives can do this, and the > > > drive in question here was DDS, so it should be able to work with 2 > > > FMs. > > > >Yet another reason why 1FM@EOT should be the default. Unfortunately, we > >have too many ill-informed or fanciful or contrary users to allow this (I > >tried to get this as a default for 4.0). > > Matt, > > in what way exactly would this affect userland tools? > (Tandberg SLR4/5, NetBSD here.) ( ^^^^^^ ?? Note that this is a FreeBSD list and (comments made are with respect to the FreeBSD tape driver. Very little (testing has been done with the same h/w under NetBSD) As far as I know, it's only tcopy that is affected by this (tcopy doesn't work on tapes that have a single tape mark). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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