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From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar salvage?
Date: 6 Apr 1997 09:55:43 +0100
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Paul Boven <paul@wit387304.student.utwente.nl> writes:
> Hey.. I've been trying for quite a while to stuff more than one
> backup on a tape using the mt command, but it just made my tape go
> forward, and then back again. Does anyone know whether a "st0 at
> scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <WANGTEK, 5150ES SCSI FA00, 20> SCSI1 1
> sequential removable" would be prone to this end of medium misfeature?

Don't know. Are you using the nrst0 device?  that one doesn't rewind on close..

r is raw device
n is no rewind on close
e is eject on close (if capable)

this is in the st(4) man page, sorry if you already know this..

iain