From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 20:35:29 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 C350816A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6B943D3F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:35:29 -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 i2N4iOOn086878 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:44:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Shawn Guillemette" To: "Questions" Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:35:51 -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 04:35:29 -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