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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!duncan From: duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) Subject: Re: SCSI tape control? Message-ID: <duncanC4vFuw.7n2@netcom.com> Summary: no rewind on close Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <52235@seismo.CSS.GOV> <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com> <CGD.93Apr1202552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 19:37:44 GMT Lines: 15 In article <CGD.93Apr1202552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > 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... unless you use /dev/nrst0! Then the tape will stay as positioned. -- duncan@zycad.com (Donald Duncan)