possible problem writing to SCSI tapes

[Jacques Vidrine]

Hi Everyone,

I thought I'd forward this, in case there is someone interested in  
working on SCSI tape support.

Andrew Hume wrote in the June 2005 ";login":

    For outright bugs, two examples come to mind.  The first is
    the weakness of the FreeBSD SCSI system;  we cannot reliably
    write tapes on our FreeBSD nodes (although at least we get
    told about the errors!).  Again, the tape is slow (5MB/s) and
    should not be an issue, and we can reliably write them on
    Linux (on more or less identical hardware).  Although this is
    annoying, it turns out reading a tape works just fine, so
    we're not too annoyed.

There's not further information in the article, nor is there a  
related PR that I can see.  Perhaps someone interested can contact  
<andrew at research.att.com> directly.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio
nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org