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#! rnews 973 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.cic.net!infoserv.illinois.net!one.mind.net!id.mind.net!laird From: laird@id.mind.net (Alan Laird) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: tape retension? Date: 30 Jul 1995 08:36:20 GMT Organization: InfoStructure - Ashland, OR Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3vfga4$87u@one.mind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: id.mind.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello, I am using an exabyte 4200c 4mm DAT drive to do some backups and I have been trying to figure out how to retension the tape when I am doing seeks/reads/writes all the time. The eom command is not accepted and from looking through the various kernel code, I cannot figure out how to retension tapes. Am I missing something obvious here or does everyone have backup strategies that don't require retensioning? Thanks, Alan Laird laird@mind.net