From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 19:52:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03167 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03146 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id EAA06672 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:52:04 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id EAA02023 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:52:04 +0100 Received: (uucp@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) with UUCP id AAA13882 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:13:18 +0100 Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.frmug.fr.net (8.7.3/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id WAA13226 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:50:47 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199601122150.WAA13226@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:50:47 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199601112157.NAA12938@eng4.sequent.com> from "Ben Jackson" at Jan 11, 96 01:57:36 pm X-rene: Tu dois pas les avoir perdues, normalement. X-wing-fighter: et puis X-men, X-open, X-ta-mere... X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ben Jackson écrit / writes: > > > Sorry if this was covered (I've been mostly ignoring this thread), but > > > the standard command for this is `retension'. [...] [...] > I just checked DYNIX/ptx and Solaris. I remember SunOS 4.1.x supporting > it, too. BTW, the following SCSI command (posted earlier): scsi -s 1800 -f /dev/st0ctl.0 \ -c "1b 0 0 0 0:b5 v:b1 v:b1 v:b1 0" 0 1 1 works fine to retension my tape (QIC 60)... But if I use: mt -f /dev/nrst0 reten I get: % mt reten mt: /dev/nrst0: retens: Invalid argument -- Phil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "Le schtroumpf est à l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjon