Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Personally, I think underflow is really an error condition, and should
>cause an auto-REQUEST_SENSE and sense data to be returned along with
>CHECK_CONDITION or some other message.
>
>Really, in the case of an underflow, we've most likely got some type of
>media problem. And it's very likely that even the part we _think_ got
>read/written correctly didn't actually.
>
>So I think we should rip this out.
>
>Matt Dharm
It is standard practice in variable block tape applications to always
issue a read for max block size. 99.999% of the reads result in a
check_condition for requested size != actual. Its not a media problem.
-steve
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