Subject: Re: mt(1) doesn't report file number?
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: None <rmcm@compsoft.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/22/2002 08:31:50
kern/15993 ( subject says SLR/8, should be SLR/7)
Hauke Fath writes:
> At 7:33 Uhr +1100 21.3.2002, rmcm@compsoft.com.au wrote:
> >Matthew Jacob writes:
> > >
> > > Interestingly enough, I even *have* such a beast.
> > >
> >
> >Excellent - also, a similar patch (not submitted) is required for
> >SL/7. I can submit if needed.
>
> ME-TOO. ;)
>
> Tandberg SLR4, SLR5, SLR60. There are two distinct issues here for QIC
> derived drives:
>
> o support for variable block length (which all the SLR models do just
> fine, and which st(4) does not even read for QIC)
>
> o 1FM@EOT vs. 2FM@EOT (which is relevant for writing more than one file on
> a tape -- think 'Amanda')
>
> Matthew, if you are interested, I can send you the patches I use at work
> (and will have to re-apply soon when I upgrade the machine's kernel).
>
> hauke
>
>
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