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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exabyte 8205 on FreeBSD Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:17:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <496qeu$37b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48tpco$4j4@pilot.njin.net> <4913e7$9ct@times.tfs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > > The drive does work, but > >it is real slow and the mt command will not return drive status telling > >me that it is an unknown tape drive. > the 'st' utility from freeBSD 1.1 was accidentally left out > when 2.0 was made. It was re-incorporated in 2.0.5 > and then combined with it's parent 'mt' for 2.1 (I think that's the > time scale) It's already in 2.0.5 this way. It was too odd to have two utilities with 80 % identical functionality, that's why i didn't reincarnate `st' by its old name, but merged its functionality into the well-known `mt' instead (where everybody seemed to expect it anyway). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)