Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:20:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewinding tapes Message-ID: <20050519152040.GB82926@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <428CAB4B.6080907@witchspace.com> References: <428CAB4B.6080907@witchspace.com>
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In the last episode (May 19), Jonathan Belson said: > I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, > then reads back the data that was stored as a test. > > The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and > subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has > finished. "mt rewind" is synchronous on all the tape drive I have used it on (dat, dlt, 9-track, 3490). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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