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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!btnet!news.euro.net!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP35480 and MTRETEN Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 19:58:58 +0100 Organization: Kampai Lines: 14 Message-ID: <313748F2.794BDF32@kampai.euronet.nl> References: <4h6qnk$i63@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: p427.asd.euronet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Craig Johnston wrote: > > I have an HP35480 DAT drive and want to be able to send the retension > command to it with gnu mt, but looking at /usr/include/sys/mtio.h, I > see MTRETEN is not supported. > > I assume that if the drive supports this command, adding this would be > as simple as defining MTRETEN to the appropriate value, no? I don't think DATs support the retension command. If you really want to to retension your tape (which I don't think is really necessary for DATs), then use the erase command. Gary