On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:34:46AM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:40:13PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This is a status update about the thorpej_scsipi branch (and request for
> > testers :)
> 
> A question about the thorpej_scsipi work; are SCSI tape drives better
> supported ?

I don't think anything has been done in this area

> 
> At the moment our st driver has no idea about the current file or
> block number, and not knowing where you are on the tape is very
> annoying. Also, there doesn't seem to be any feedback in "mt status"
> for settings such as "mt compress", etc. Finally, the driver has been
> flaky at times, especially in the case of drive or tape error.
> 
> I was under the impression that work such as the thorpej_scsipi should
> make improving the above problems much easier, especially with respect
> to the error reporting.

Yes, error handling is better in the middle-layer, but this shouldn't much
affect higther-level driver. I think this is a separate issue :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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