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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI tape control?
Date: 1 Apr 93 20:25:52
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr1202552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <52235@seismo.CSS.GOV> <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com>
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In-reply-to: duncan@netcom.com's message of Thu, 1 Apr 1993 21:48:55 GMT
In article <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com> duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) writes:
>You can grab mt from the gnu cpio-2.2.tar archive. Works fine.
also in the net-2 distribution, and coming soon to a patchkit near
you... 8-)
also, you need to be using "/dev/nrst0" rather than "/dev/rst0",
or no matter what you do, the driver will rewind the tape when
you close it...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass