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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-04-30 12:03:27 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-04-30 12:03:27 +0000 |
commit | d6c3d58fdafacf174f16f405332346d0a7da107e (patch) | |
tree | dd2f84a927caa8730d622f5220953d71abb05160 /share/man/man4 | |
parent | 713068ffe2f09044b98440493e27931b55d5c523 (diff) |
a even length -> an even length;
killed whitespace at EOL;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 index d6cd571a5cb..6e4c9c08711 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: st.4,v 1.12 2003/03/16 20:12:51 miod Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: st.4,v 1.13 2003/04/30 12:03:26 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ driver was written especially to support the Exabyte .Tn EXB-8200 8MM Cartridge Tape Subsystem. -It has several extensions specific to the Exabyte, but should support other +It has several extensions specific to the Exabyte, but should support other tape drives as long as they follow the .Tn ANSI SCSI-I specification. @@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ struct mtget { .Pp Bit 4 in the minor device number is used to select long filemarks or short filemarks. -A long filemark occupies 2.12 MBytes of space on the tape, while a short -filemark occupies 488 KBytes. +A long filemark occupies 2.12 MBytes of space on the tape, while a short +filemark occupies 488 KBytes. A long filemark includes an erase gap while the short filemark does not. The tape can be positioned on the .Tn BOT side of a long filemark allowing -data to be appended with a write operation. +data to be appended with a write operation. Since the short filemark does not contain an erase gap which would allow writing it is considered to be non-erasable. If either type of filemark is followed by blank tape, data may be appended @@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ Read requests are normally even length for which a .Tn DMA transfer is used. If, however, the driver detects that an odd length read has happened -(when a even length was requested) it will issue the +(when an even length was requested) it will issue the .Dv EIO error and the last byte of the read -data will be 0x00. +data will be 0x00. Odd length read requests must match the size of the requested data block on tape. .Pp @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ is ok). One can only start writing at 1) beginning of tape, 2) on the end of what was last written, 3) "front" side of a regular (long) filemark. For example, you have a tape with 3 tar files. -If you want to save the first file, but overwrite the second two files with +If you want to save the first file, but overwrite the second two files with new data, on a normal 1/4" or 1/2" drive you would do: .Pp @@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ until a .Tn \*qBLANK CHECK\*q error is returned. Writing can be started at this point. -(This applies to both long and short filemarks.) -The tape does not become positioned somewhere down the "erased" area as +(This applies to both long and short filemarks.) +The tape does not become positioned somewhere down the "erased" area as does a conventional magtape. One can issue multiple reads at the .Tn \*qBLANK CHECK\*q |