From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 20:20:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7D216A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D41843D2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@guillemette.org) Received: from tacstation (66-63-96-2.metrocast.net [66.63.96.2]) by bmyster.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i2N4TLOn086708 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:29:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Shawn Guillemette" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:20:49 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: ZIP DRIVE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:20:29 -0000 I have a 100M zip drive in my machine and want to start using it for some backups. I have a script working (always looking for more if you have urls) so it will erase the data on the zip disk using rm and then write some tar'ed files to the disk. I cant seem to get the drive to release the disk though. Id like to have the script release the tape for me so I know when it has completed. Also wondering if there is another way to remove the files from the destination media.. I know with tapes you can use erase, rewind, so on .. are there similar commands for the zip drive? Thanks, Shawn Guillemette There is no place like 127.0.0.1