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From: accu@hpuepta.UUCP (Accugraph Corp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: tcio(1) read-while-write question
Message-ID: <32870010@hpuepta.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 18:29:49 GMT
Organization: HP El Paso Sales Office
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The HP-UX 6.2 & 6.5 tcio(1) manual entries refer to read-while-write hardware
capabilities to be described in the DEPENDENCIES section (for the -V option).
However, there is no reference to this feature in that section.  The 7.0
manuals do state that this feature is supported for: 7942, 7946, 7941CT, 9144A
and 35401.

Question: does tcio(1) support this capability in 6.2 and 6.5 (i.e. is the
manual page incorrect or was something added to tcio(1) in 7.0)?

Philip Webster
hplabs!hpuepta!attila!pw

P.S.  I discovered a convenient way to block until a tape is loaded especially
nice for our 35401 in seq. mode for producing our software.

#! /bin/csh
set src_loaded = 0
while ( $src_loaded == 0 )
	sleep 30
	tcio -i -S 8 /dev/update.src |& dd bs=1k count=1 >& /dev/null
	if ( $status == 0 ) then
		src_loaded = 1
	endif
end