written even it the tape was opened readonly- 2 botches in deferred error
handling for FIXED LENGTH mode which caused panic && hand resp.). Fixed
a memory leak in sa_mount.
2) Fixed an annoying bug when turning of compression to actually reflect
this for future status calls.
3) Implement the MTIOCERRSTAT call where latched control and I/O residuals
and sense data are returned to the application asking for them.