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From: duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape control?
Message-ID: <duncanC4vFuw.7n2@netcom.com>
Summary: no rewind on close
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <52235@seismo.CSS.GOV> <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com> <CGD.93Apr1202552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 19:37:44 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Apr1202552@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> In article <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com> duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) writes:
> >You can grab mt from the gnu cpio-2.2.tar archive.  Works fine.
> 
> also in the net-2 distribution, and coming soon to a patchkit near
> you...  8-)
> 
> also, you need to be using "/dev/nrst0" rather than "/dev/rst0",
> or no matter what you do, the driver will rewind the tape when
> you close it...

unless you use /dev/nrst0!  Then the tape will stay as positioned.

-- 
duncan@zycad.com (Donald Duncan)