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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sisters.cs.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.tek.com!news!phils From: phils@satori.tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: patch for "mt" status command for SCSI tapes Date: 25 Sep 1994 05:21:53 GMT Organization: Tektronix TV Products Lines: 19 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <PHILS.94Sep24222153@satori.tv.tek.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Sep19192058@leidecker.std.com> <CwGM8y.H65@tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: satori.tv.tek.com In-reply-to: julian@tfs.com's message of Wed, 21 Sep 1994 03:12:34 GMT In article <CwGM8y.H65@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > why would one want to use the 'mt' command for scsi tapes? > > it doesn't do anyhting that the 'st command doesn't (they're related) > and the 'st' command returns REAL INFORMATION.. Last time I checked, st doesn't support 'erase' and 'retension' commands that mt does. I haven't looked very closely to see if there might be others. > > julian Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub, phils@tv.tv.tek.com Tektronix Television Division (503) 627-6910