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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Ports - What is the standard for "ported"?
To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:34:38 -0800 (PST)
Cc: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510291530.E20975-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Oct 29, 95 03:42:52 pm
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> 
> On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Frank Durda IV wrote:
> 
> > a WangDAT tape drive that under 2.0.5 won't let you remove the media until
> > you reboot the system, OR you can issue a mt offline, remove the media, and
> > then reboot to get the drive to load new media - that really stinks and
> 
> 	this problem must be unique to WangDAT or at least non-exabyte 
> 4mm tape drives.   i use a 4mm for daily backup.  unload the tape with 
> "/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl".   load a new tape every morning and 
> haev no problems at all.  
> 
> 	here is my dump.4mm script (the rewind gets the tape started, 
> should not be needed but is, alas)
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "" >> dump.log
> echo "" >> dump.log
> echo "" >> dump.log
> /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind
> /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1a 2>&1 | tee -a  
                               ^^^^^^^^^^ this dissables the button
> /root/dump.log
> /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1e 2>&1 | tee -a  
> /root/dump.log
> /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/rst0 /dev/sd1f 2>&1  | tee -a  
                               ^^^^^^^^ this enables it again (on close)
> /root/dump.log
> /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl
                  ^^^^^^^^ so does this

>