kern/50691: EOT detection in sa driver prevents mutli volume dump

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Tue Apr 8 12:00:30 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR kern/50691; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Lawson <nate at root.org>
To: Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <Lars at koellers.net>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/50691: EOT detection in sa driver prevents mutli volume
 dump 
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT)

 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Lars [iso-8859-1] Köller wrote:
 > In reply to Nate Lawson who wrote:
 > 
 > >I agree with Bruce.  Remove the "|SA_QUIRK_2FM" from the C56 line above,
 > >recompile your kernel, and try again.  Let us know if this fixes things
 > >for you.  Variable block size has little to do with requiring 2 end of
 > >file marks and the original commit should have been more careful about
 > >this.
 > 
 > If I understand the code change right, it is only valid for HP DAT 
 > drives. Sorry I've forgotten to mention my is a 
 > 
 >   ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX
 > 
 > So this couldn't be the reason. The last successful backup on a DDS2 
 > and a second DDS1 tape was done at Jan 11th.
 
 Please reply with the results of "camcontrol devlist" for the history of
 this PR and I'll close it.
 
 -Nate
 


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