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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:31:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: WangDAT & FreeBSD strangeness
To: Frank Durda IV <uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com>
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On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Frank Durda IV wrote:

> 
> [1]julian@ref.tfs.com says:
> [1]Are you saying that a
> [1]mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline
> [1]stops the tape from ever working again?
> 
> YES!  Once you do a mt offline, that is it!  END OF GAME!  You must
> reboot or it won't even let you insert media in the drive.  The
> drive refuses to load any new cartridges you stick in the door.  You
> get one tape per boot.  Under SCO, this does not happen.

	if you use '/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl'.  you can load as 
many tapes as you like.

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