Unfortunately I can't run your testcase. My DDS tape drive seems to be broken. It can read, but it behaves weird when trying to write :-(((
Doesn't it worry you, that we both have write problems? When I stick to reading, everything works just fine also. Do you want my Native NT version - it works perfectly?
Here are some other things I've noticed:
1/ close() writes a file-mark in some cases... Don't, I can do this myself, thank's anyway!
2/ read() should check for Win32 error 1101 - filemark and return 0 bytes, no error.
3/ tape_status dynamically checks 'tape_drive_get_absolute_blk', before calling
tape_get_pos () : but my tape drive says '0' when it's busy, preventing the current
block from being updated *sometimes*. Force-reading it works just fine, if you want to
cache the flag somewhere when the device is opened?
4/ sending a tape-rewind command doesn't reset any internal flags, does it need to?
Jason.
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