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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: tar salvage? Date: 6 Apr 1997 09:55:43 +0100 Organization: The Bath Room Message-ID: <5i7oef$5b8@skate.demon.co.uk> References: <992.7033T1092T1352@ping.at> <slrn5kaeu3.avt.grr@shandakor.tharsis.com> <slrn5kb5it.r4.paul@wit387304.student.utwente.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Brian's News Reader V0.10 [NetBSD] Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:15352 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5759 Paul Boven <paul@wit387304.student.utwente.nl> writes: > Hey.. I've been trying for quite a while to stuff more than one > backup on a tape using the mt command, but it just made my tape go > forward, and then back again. Does anyone know whether a "st0 at > scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <WANGTEK, 5150ES SCSI FA00, 20> SCSI1 1 > sequential removable" would be prone to this end of medium misfeature? Don't know. Are you using the nrst0 device? that one doesn't rewind on close.. r is raw device n is no rewind on close e is eject on close (if capable) this is in the st(4) man page, sorry if you already know this.. iain