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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape file system Date: 31 Mar 1997 19:54:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5hp4pf$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5h0pfc$7vg@fu-berlin.de> <5h454f$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5hda34$6sk$2@easystreet03> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38280 tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) wrote: > What would be needed to be able to support the QFA commands of scsi > tape drives? No idea. IIRC somebody has even been posting QFA patches years ago, but i have no idea whether they were functional or not. I would have to dig through all the mail archives on my optical disk. The first is probably that you need to make tar(1) using lseek(2). This can easily be tested on floppies. You need to find a reliable way to tell whether the lseek() worked (and if not, still resort to the old method). Or you make it an option to tar. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)