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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 'mt' options (of FreeBSD 1.1.5[.1])
Date: 25 Aug 1994 00:57:55 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.sax.de) wrote:
: athula@cs.keele.ac.uk (Athula Herath) writes:

: >The SunOS 'mt' has an option called 'eom' -- end of media. I wonder
: >whether there is any equivalent 'mt' available on FreeBSD (the one
: >comes with the standard installation does not support this option)? I
: >wonder whether this is something to do with the SCSI tape device
: >driver?

: That reminds me of one of my personal TODO items. Sorry, due to the
: lack of spare time and reasonable IP connectivity, i didn't make this
: go into FreeBSD 1.1.5.

what about mt erase ... doesn't work with my Archive 2525...

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