[6425] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: End of tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Mon Apr 26 13:32:20 1999
To: Richard Fish <rjf@estinc.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:59:22 PDT."
<372438FA.F30AD35E@estinc.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:17:03 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@Poohsticks.Org>
In message <372438FA.F30AD35E@estinc.com>, rjf@estinc.com writes:
>Thus, the application needn't be concerned about whether we are getting
>close to EOM. You get the best possible behavior whether the drive
>signals early EOM or not.
With "early warning", an archive program can write a table of contents
to the end of tape. Without, it can't because variable compression rates
mean that it doesn't know tape size.
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