Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 10:57:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com> Subject: Re: SCSI EOT fixed J"org? Message-ID: <19980412105735.37665@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980411204617.63713@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 08:46:17PM %2B0200 References: <199804070732.XAA28712@revolution.3-cities.com> <19980411204617.63713@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 11 April 1998 at 20:46:17 +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > As Mark D Smith wrote: > >> Some time back, you answered a question in freebsd-scsi about end of >> tape detection on a DAT drive. You'd said that the message wasn't >> getting to the calling program through the kernel, or something >> similar. Has this been fixed or has the CAM (I STILL haven't tried >> it yet) code fixed it? > > AFAIK, neither subsystem handles tape EOFs correctly yet. (To recall > the problem: the driver is supposed to return a `short write' (even > null write) in case it encounters EOF/EOM, but instead it returns EIO > currently). My understanding is that the CAM driver returns ENOSPC. I don't know whether it performs a partial write, but as long as it correctly reports what it does, that's fine by me. -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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