Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:49:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, handy@sag.space.lockheed.com Subject: Re: Tape question Message-ID: <199709091849.LAA29705@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970909162235.DF18120@ida.interface-business.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 9, 97 04:22:35 pm
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> I once wrote: > > > This must be a problem with the Exabyte then. It works fine for me, > > with a Tandberg TDC4222, and a QIC-525 cartridge (QIC-150, of course, > > doesn't work since it's fixed-length blocking). > > I've verified with this test program that it works on a DAT drive as > well, with the ahc(4) driver in this case (and on 2.2-stable). I'm *really* not trying to be contentious here, but I have to ask... How did you verify that the BSD device driver was not padding records on write? AFAIK, the only way to do that is with a machine that you know doesn't do it writing the test tapes. Like a SunOS box. That said, Sun is well known to rewrite proms for no good reason (ie: Toshiba 3401B CDROMs and CDROMs as boot devices). Maybe we are both looking in the wrong place for the problem? I've done it before... 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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