mt-st/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Changes in version 1.2 (unreleased)

This a mostly a cleanup release after many years of no updates, integrating pending fixes and distribution patches from Debian and RedHat, and a change of maintainership:

• many updates to density codes (SDLT, LTO 5,6 and 7, etc.) (various people)
• multiple man page updates (various people)
• improve default tape device handling in mt: check that it actually is a character device, in order to show better error messages when /dev/tape is a different type (e.g. directory when using udev)
• small bug fix in stinit in parsing the input file (David Binderman)
• improve build system by allowing easier customisation of build flags and installation directory (via DESTDIR, not prefix) (Iustin Pop)
• sanitise the source code to get rid of GCC warnings (Jan Christoph Nordholz, Iustin Pop)
• add stshowoptions alias to stshowopt (Ivo De Decker)
• expand the provided stinit.def.examples file (Suggested by Ralf-Peter Rohbeck)
• improve the --help output of stinit (Dan Horák)
• change of maintainership to Iustin Pop iustin@k1024.org

Changes in version 1.1 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008)

• unused defines removed from mtio.h (compiles also with distributions no having linux/qic117.h)
• add support for MT_ST_SILI to mt and stinit
• add mt command showoptions for kernels >= 2.6.26
• fix mode number printing in stinit's verbose mode (from Martin Jacobs)

Changes in version 0.9b (Sun, 21 Aug 2005)

• stinit: fix back out to SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND for 2.4 kernels (2.4 uses errno EINVAL for unsupported ioctls)

Changes in version 0.9 (Sun, 29 May 2005)

• mt: more density codes
• stinit: try first SG_IO for inquiry, if the ioctl fails, try SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND; note that error checking for SG_IO is very simplistic for now

Changes in version 0.8 (Tue, 13 Apr 2004)

• put man pages into /usr/share/man/man1, respectively /usr/share/man/man8
• in devfs, /dev/tapes/tape<n> does not match nth drive after rmmoding and insmodding the st driver; fix provided by Philippe Troin
• documentation cleanup
• add some density translations
• counts can use the k, M, or G postfix

Changes in version 0.7 (Wed, 21 Nov 2001)

mt:

• add command eject for compatibility with GNU mt (synonym for offline and rewoffl)
• the load and erase commands accept an argument
• add CLN (cleaning request) to status
• add command stsetcln to set the cleaning request recognition options
• add the flag no-wait to the settable/clearable options
• some new density codes added

stinit:

• the directory scanning for tape devices is restricted to files with certain names in some directories to avoid triggering automatic module loading for device that don't exist (original patch from Philippe Troin)
• support for devfs (/dev/tapes) added
• logging bug fixes
• add setting the cleaning request parameter
• add setting the no-wait (immediate) bit

Changes in version 0.6 (Thu, 30 Nov 2000)

mt:

• uses local mtio.h to include support for the most recent driver features even when compiled on a system having old mtio.h
• on-line and write-protect are checked after some errors and a message is printed if the probable error reason is found
• the tape is opened with flag O_NONBLOCK for commands that are useful even when the device is not ready (no tape)
• some new density codes added for printout
• OnStream drives using the osst driver recognised
• the obsolete command 'datcompression' is removed
• new option --version

stinit:

• fix the bug with whitespace at the beginning of lines in the configuration file
• use O_NONBLOCK to open the tape (anticipate kernel change)

Changes in version 0.5b (Sun, 16 Aug 1998)

mt:

• corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if option -f was used
• density 0x45 (TR-4) added to known density list

stinit:

• added #include <errno.h> to enable compilation with glibc

Changes in version 0.5

• utility stinit added to package
• GNU Public License used for both programs
• binaries not distributed any more

mt:

• command asf added
• command datcompression not compiled in default configuration
• support added for setting timeouts
• bugs in argument parsing corrected
• help prints all commands
• some code cleanup

Changes in version 0.4

• support for the ioctls for partitioned tapes
• compiles also with 1.2.13
• the driver options can be specified also with keywords
• floppy tape type is shown
• (not working) support for other operating systems removed

Changes in version 0.3

• support for new ioctls
• accepts hexadecimal numbers with prefix 0x
• the datcompression command improved (although it is being overridden by the command compression using a new ioctl)
• bus fixes