From caa5cbc03bb09fcd093be9c935598b0794ec5204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjacob Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:23:50 +0000 Subject: Add a clarification in the man page suggesting that some tapes (QIC) written under 2.X may not be easily read under the current driver without explicitly setting to variable mode or to the blocksize these tapes were written under 2.X with. PR: 6681 --- share/man/man4/sa.4 | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/man/man4/sa.4') diff --git a/share/man/man4/sa.4 b/share/man/man4/sa.4 index 6029a8e..df8ff4a 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/sa.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/sa.4 @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: sa.4,v 1.15 1999/03/07 18:57:50 ghelmer Exp $ +.\" $Id: sa.4,v 1.16 1999/05/08 21:28:18 ken Exp $ .\" -.Dd October 15, 1998 +.Dd June 6, 1999 .Dt SA 4 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME @@ -182,8 +182,14 @@ Many older .Tn SCSI-1 devices may not work properly with this driver yet. .Pp +Additionally, certain +tapes (QIC tapes mostly) that were written under FreeBSD 2.X +aren't automatically read correctly with this driver: you may need to +explicitly set variable block mode or set to the blocksize that works best +for your device in order to read tapes written under FreeBSD 2.X. +.Pp Fine grained density and compression mode support that is bound to specific -device names needs to be addaed. +device names needs to be added. .Pp Support for fast indexing by use of partitions is missing. .Sh DIAGNOSTICS -- cgit v1.1