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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      csg@waterspout.com (C. Stephen Gunn)
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/21178: voltag selector, and unload support for chio(1) 
Message-ID:  <200009111350.GAA71527@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/21178; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: csg@waterspout.com (C. Stephen Gunn)
To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, ajk@waterspout.com,
	ab@eas.purdue.edu, dpm@vutar.com
Subject: Re: bin/21178: voltag selector, and unload support for chio(1) 
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:50:13 -0500

 On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 00:56:23 CST, "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
 
 > Looks like a pretty good idea.
 > 
 > I took a cursory glance through the patch, and noticed the 'XXX' comment
 > about looking through pickers and portals.
 
 Yeah.  I didn't do that because of the way the ioctl() works to
 fetch information from the drive.  I guess it's not a big deal
 though.  Since I don't have any pickers or portals on my test drive,
 I'm not familiar with when a tape might be in one.  ( I guess I can
 figure the portal one out real easy ). 
 
 > I'd suggest looking at them as well, even if it won't be used very often.
 > (I've moved things from pickers and portals often enough, though.)
 
 I can add this.  I've got some other pending comments from my homeboys
 on the cc: line.  I'll address those as well, and submit a more recent
 patch early this week.
 
 > I also wonder about the 'unload' keyword.  It almost sounds like something
 > you might use to eject a tape or something. What about calling it 'return'
 > instead?  (I don't feel really strongly about this, but I figure we ought
 > to make things intuitive, if possible.)
 
 <grin> I use it exclusively to "unload" a tape from the drive to the 
 slot that it came from.  In my cursory investigation, drives (and
 perhaps pickers/portals) are the only changer elements with a valid
 source parameter.
 
 > Anyway, I'll try to give the patch a more thorough look-over in the next
 > few days.  I won't be able to do more than that before committing it,
 > though, since I don't have a test changer anymore.  (You've obviously
 > tested it, though, so we should be okay in that department.)
 
 Let me fixup some stuff based input, and I'll update the pr, and cc: you.
 
 Thanks!
 
  - Steve
 
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