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Rodney W. Grimes 982970298f >From: vak@zebub.msk.su (Serge V.Vakulenko)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:13:17 +0300

Description:
	Old wt driver is too incomplete and buggy.
	It does not support Archive controllers, BSD-like
	tape ioctls, multiple tape controllers, different
	tape density etc.
Fix:
	This driver is a replacement of the old one.
	It was not tested on different controllers, though.

	This is the streamer tape driver for 386bsd and FreeBSD,
	which supports Wangtek and Archive controllers.
	It was developed as a replacement of the old Wangtek
	tape driver from CMU.

In comparison with the CMU driver, this version has the following enhancements:
1) Support for Archive SC402 and SC499 tape controllers added.
2) Support for up to three tape controllers on the same machine.
3) Support for BSD-style ioctls MTIOCGET, MTIOCTOP.
   Mt command now works adequately with this driver.
4) Asynchronous REWIND and FSF operations, close() will not wait
   until they finish.  The next open() will wait for it instead.
5) Use of WTQICMD ioctl is limited to ERASE and RETENS operations.
   This prevents the user from locking the tape driver by strange
   tape operations.
6) Tape density switching added.
7) The status of the process, blocked on the tape operation,
   is displayed at the WCHAN column of the `ps' command as:

	wtread    reading data from the tape
	wtwrite   writing data to the tape
	wtrfm     reading the tape marker
	wtwfm     writing the tape marker
	wtrew     rewinding the tape
	wterase   doing WTQICMD ERASE operation
	wtretens  doing WTQICMD RETENS operation
	wtorew    doing MTIOCTOP REW/OFFL operation
	wtorfm    doing MTIOCTOP FSF operation
	wtowfm    doing MTIOCTOP WEOF operation

Block interface (writing blocks less than 2048 bytes) is not functioning
pwoperly.  Use raw interface instead.
1993-09-30 20:12:37 +00:00
bin Fix grammar to eliminate support for unary minus expressions -- they 1993-09-14 22:49:52 +00:00
etc Updated for new location of syscons fonts and keymap files 1993-09-29 02:25:59 +00:00
gnu >From: "J.T. Conklin" <jtc@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu> 1993-09-24 17:51:10 +00:00
lib/csu/i386
libexec/makekey
sbin The fdisk man page doesn't show correctly the usage possibilities of 1993-08-10 10:31:35 +00:00
share/man/man4 From: baukno@login.dkuug.dk (S|ren Schmidt) 1993-09-09 00:32:25 +00:00
sys >From: vak@zebub.msk.su (Serge V.Vakulenko) 1993-09-30 20:12:37 +00:00
usr.bin Added README which explains the copyright status of getopt(1) 1993-07-27 17:24:17 +00:00
usr.sbin Import NetBSD version of dbsym (below is rlog of there version), and add 1993-09-26 16:40:41 +00:00