Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:31:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911160729370.98613-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19991115204113.33800@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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> > Every night, I do a partial backup, one file on tape for each file > system, about 12 in all. Subsequently I read the tape and list > contents until I hit EOT. OK, the first time I use a tape, there will > be nothing behind it. But the next time, the total length of tape > written may be shorter, so there will be data after logical EOT. How > is the program going to know where to stop? Every time you stop writing, that's EOT. You can't read past it with SCSI drives- really, no, you can't. You can seek to end of recorded data and start writing, but you can't read past where you've written to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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