From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 20:02:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA29411 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:02:42 -0800 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29405 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:02:39 -0800 Received: from news.cs.utexas.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyezg02270; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:01:38 -0500 Received: from mail.cs.utexas.edu (root@mail.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.139.10]) by news.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA05283; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:01:33 -0600 Received: from uudell.us.dell.com (uudell.us.dell.com [143.166.224.6]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA17794; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:01:31 -0600 Received: from obiwan by uudell.us.dell.com (5.67/dns1.3) with UUCP id AA14037; Tue, 28 Feb 95 03:56:06 GMT Received: by obiwan.uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0rjIj3-00031tC; Mon, 27 Feb 95 21:35 CST Message-Id: From: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: SCSI Tape utilities (DAT Wangtek) ? To: hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Bill Hart) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:35:52 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Bill Hart" at Feb 28, 95 08:08:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 754 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Hart wrote: > > Hi, > there used to be a utility in 1.1.5 called "st" for manipulating scsi > tapes. The classic "mt" program wouldn't recognise the device type > of my scsi DAT (Wangtek?) drive, but st worked fine. After having > upgraded my system to 2.0R months ago I finally got round to doing > a backup and found that mt still doesn't work and st seems to have > dissappeard. Any work arounds ? or source for st ? I grabbed st from by 1.1.5.1 system. BTW, is there a plan to put the lost function (at least) of st into 2.1? -- Bob Willcox ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!uudell!obiwan!bob Austin, TX or try: @uudell.us.dell.com:obiwan!bob 512-258-4224 (home), 512-838-3914 (work)