Re: Tape handling in Linux

Becca Putman wrote:

>I'm back... I got vmsbackup installed on my PC, and I *think* it would
>work.  However, as my luck would have it, the very first block is bad
>(hence that 80 for a blocksize mentioned earlier.)  I tried to use mt to
>move the tape forward, but it seems that someone in their infinite
>wisdom decided that it was a really good idea to rewind the tape after
>mt finished.  At least, that's the impression I'm getting... I tried:
>
>mt -f /dev/st0 eod
>
>to see if I could position the tape at the end.  It paused there, and
>then promptly rewound.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Becca
>

The /dev/st0 automatically rewinds the tape after the tape device is 
closed. It will always do that, no matter what command you use. If you 
want the tape not to automatically rewind when it's done, use the device 
/dev/nst0 instead.

That's all :)

Eric.