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7.6 KiB
Groff
247 lines
7.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1996
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.\" Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1999
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.Dt SA 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sa
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.Nd SCSI Sequential Access device driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd device sa
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for all
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.Tn SCSI
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devices of the sequential access class that are attached to the system
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through a supported
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.Tn SCSI
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Host Adapter.
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The sequential access class includes tape and other linear access devices.
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.Pp
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A
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.Tn SCSI
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Host
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adapter must also be separately configured into the system
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before a
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.Tn SCSI
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sequential access device can be configured.
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.Sh MOUNT SESSIONS
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The
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.Nm
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driver is based around the concept of a
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.Dq Em mount session ,
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which is defined as the period between the time that a tape is
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mounted, and the time when it is unmounted.
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Any parameters set during
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a mount session remain in effect for the remainder of the session or
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until replaced.
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The tape can be unmounted, bringing the session to a
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close in several ways.
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These include:
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.Bl -enum
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.It
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Closing a `rewind device',
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referred to as sub-mode 00 below.
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An example is
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.Pa /dev/sa0 .
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.It
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Using the MTOFFL
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.Xr ioctl 2
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command, reachable through the
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.Sq Cm offline
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command of
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.Xr mt 1 .
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.El
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.Pp
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It should be noted that tape devices are exclusive open devices, except in
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the case where a control mode device is opened.
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In the latter case, exclusive
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access is only sought when needed (e.g., to set parameters).
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.Sh SUB-MODES
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Bits 0 and 1 of the minor number are interpreted as
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.Sq sub-modes .
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The sub-modes differ in the action taken when the device is closed:
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.Bl -tag -width XXXX
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.It 00
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A close will rewind the device; if the tape has been
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written, then a file mark will be written before the rewind is requested.
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The device is unmounted.
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.It 01
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A close will leave the tape mounted.
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If the tape was written to, a file mark will be written.
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No other head positioning takes place.
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Any further reads or writes will occur directly after the
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last read, or the written file mark.
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.It 10
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A close will rewind the device.
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If the tape has been
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written, then a file mark will be written before the rewind is requested.
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On completion of the rewind an unload command will be issued.
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The device is unmounted.
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.El
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.Sh BLOCKING MODES
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.Tn SCSI
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tapes may run in either
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.Sq Em variable
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or
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.Sq Em fixed
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block-size modes. Most
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.Tn QIC Ns -type
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devices run in fixed block-size mode, where most nine-track tapes and
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many new cartridge formats allow variable block-size.
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The difference between the two is as follows:
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.Bl -inset
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.It Variable block-size:
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Each write made to the device results in a single logical record
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written to the tape.
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One can never read or write
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.Em part
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of a record from tape (though you may request a larger block and read
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a smaller record); nor can one read multiple blocks.
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Data from a single write is therefore read by a single read.
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The block size used
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may be any value supported by the device, the
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.Tn SCSI
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adapter and the system (usually between 1 byte and 64 Kbytes,
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sometimes more).
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.Pp
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When reading a variable record/block from the tape, the head is
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logically considered to be immediately after the last item read,
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and before the next item after that.
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If the next item is a file mark,
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but it was never read, then the next
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process to read will immediately hit the file mark and receive an end-of-file notification.
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.It Fixed block-size:
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Data written by the user is passed to the tape as a succession of
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fixed size blocks.
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It may be contiguous in memory, but it is
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considered to be a series of independent blocks.
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One may never write
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an amount of data that is not an exact multiple of the blocksize.
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One may read and write the same data as a different set of records.
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In other words, blocks that were written together may be read separately,
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and vice-versa.
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.Pp
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If one requests more blocks than remain in the file, the drive will
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encounter the file mark.
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As there is some data to return (unless
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there were no records before the file mark), the read will succeed,
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returning that data.
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The next read will return immediately with a value
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of 0.
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(As above, if the file mark is never read, it remains for the next
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process to read if in no-rewind mode.)
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.El
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.Sh FILE MARK HANDLING
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The handling of file marks on write is automatic.
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If the user has
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written to the tape, and has not done a read since the last write,
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then a file mark will be written to the tape when the device is
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closed.
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If a rewind is requested after a write, then the driver
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assumes that the last file on the tape has been written, and ensures
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that there are two file marks written to the tape.
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The exception to
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this is that there seems to be a standard (which we follow, but don't
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understand why) that certain types of tape do not actually write two
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file marks to tape, but when read, report a `phantom' file mark when the
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last file is read.
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These devices include the QIC family of devices.
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(It might be that this set of devices is the same set as that of fixed
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block devices.
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This has not been determined yet, and they are treated
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as separate behaviors by the driver at this time.)
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.Sh IOCTLS
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports all of the ioctls of
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.Xr mtio 4 .
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/[n][e]sa[0-9] -compact
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.It Pa /dev/[n][e]sa[0-9]
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general form:
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.It Pa /dev/sa0
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Rewind on close
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.It Pa /dev/nsa0
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No rewind on close
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.It Pa /dev/esa0
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Eject on close (if capable)
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.It Pa /dev/sa0.ctl
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Control mode device (to examine state while another program is
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accessing the device, e.g.).
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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This driver lacks many of the hacks required to deal with older devices.
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Many older
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.Tn SCSI-1
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devices may not work properly with this driver yet.
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.Pp
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Additionally, certain
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tapes (QIC tapes mostly) that were written under
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.Fx
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2.X
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aren't automatically read correctly with this driver: you may need to
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explicitly set variable block mode or set to the blocksize that works best
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for your device in order to read tapes written under
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.Fx
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2.X.
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.Pp
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Fine grained density and compression mode support that is bound to specific
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device names needs to be added.
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.Pp
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Support for fast indexing by use of partitions is missing.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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None.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mt 1 ,
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.Xr scsi 4
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written for the
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.Tn CAM
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.Tn SCSI
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subsystem by
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.An Justin T. Gibbs
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and
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.An Kenneth Merry .
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Many ideas were gleaned from the
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.Nm st
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device driver written and ported from
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.Tn Mach
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2.5
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by
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.An Julian Elischer .
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.Pp
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The current owner of record is
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.An Matthew Jacob
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who has suffered too many
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years of breaking tape drivers.
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