| sa.4 (256281) | sa.4 (280438) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1996 2.\" Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" | 1.\" Copyright (c) 1996 2.\" Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" |
| 26.\" $FreeBSD: stable/10/share/man/man4/sa.4 254760 2013-08-24 04:52:22Z ken $ | 26.\" $FreeBSD: stable/10/share/man/man4/sa.4 280438 2015-03-24 14:36:10Z ken $ |
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| 28.Dd August 23, 2013 | 28.Dd February 12, 2015 |
| 29.Dt SA 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm sa 33.Nd SCSI Sequential Access device driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Cd device sa 36.Sh DESCRIPTION --- 243 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 280Many ideas were gleaned from the 281.Nm st 282device driver written and ported from 283.Tn Mach 2842.5 285by 286.An Julian Elischer . 287.Pp | 29.Dt SA 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm sa 33.Nd SCSI Sequential Access device driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Cd device sa 36.Sh DESCRIPTION --- 243 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 280Many ideas were gleaned from the 281.Nm st 282device driver written and ported from 283.Tn Mach 2842.5 285by 286.An Julian Elischer . 287.Pp |
| 288The current owner of record is 289.An Matthew Jacob 290who has suffered too many 291years of breaking tape drivers. | 288The owner of record for many years was 289.An Matthew Jacob . 290The current maintainer is 291.An Kenneth Merry |
| 292.Sh BUGS 293This driver lacks many of the hacks required to deal with older devices. 294Many older 295.Tn SCSI-1 296devices may not work properly with this driver yet. 297.Pp 298Additionally, certain 299tapes (QIC tapes mostly) that were written under 300.Fx 3012.X 302are not automatically read correctly with this driver: you may need to 303explicitly set variable block mode or set to the blocksize that works best 304for your device in order to read tapes written under 305.Fx 3062.X. 307.Pp | 292.Sh BUGS 293This driver lacks many of the hacks required to deal with older devices. 294Many older 295.Tn SCSI-1 296devices may not work properly with this driver yet. 297.Pp 298Additionally, certain 299tapes (QIC tapes mostly) that were written under 300.Fx 3012.X 302are not automatically read correctly with this driver: you may need to 303explicitly set variable block mode or set to the blocksize that works best 304for your device in order to read tapes written under 305.Fx 3062.X. 307.Pp |
| 308Fine grained density and compression mode support that is bound to specific 309device names needs to be added. 310.Pp 311Support for fast indexing by use of partitions is missing. | 308Partitions are only supported for status information and location. 309It would be nice to add support for creating and editing tape partitions. |