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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exybytes Tape Drive Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:49:30 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <318FE18A.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> References: <4mjqhg$6et@flood.xnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: vchiu@quake.xnet.com vchiu@quake.xnet.com wrote: > 1. How can I make sure the tape drive is working? If any Unix command > I can issue to check? mt -f /dev/rst0 status > 2. I heard the tape must be preformatted before it can be used. If > this is true how can I format the tape under FreeBSD? That's totally untrue. You're thinking of *floppy tapes*. > 3. Do I need to rewind the tape when I every time "tar" the files to > backup? Is the command "mt" to serve this? You do not, if you use the default /dev/rst0 device it will rewind itself on close. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project