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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:45:14 -0800
From:      Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
To:        hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI Tape utilities (DAT Wangtek) ?
Message-ID:  <199502280445.UAA13393@Grizzly.COM>
In-Reply-To: <v01510101ab77eefb9d03@[192.168.85.4]> (message from Bill Hart on Tue, 28 Feb 1995 08:08:31 %2B1100)

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Hi Bill,

>        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 use mt with a wangtek SCSI DAT drive and have no problems.  Can you
give some more information on the command line and errors? Also configuration
informantion on your DAT from /var/log/messages?

Mark



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