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Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 19:05:12 +0100 (MET)
Cc: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199601130520.WAA26011@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 12, 96 10:20:09 pm
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> > 	But if I use:
> > 
> > 		mt -f /dev/nrst0 reten
> > 
> > 	I get:
> > 
> > 		% mt reten
> > 		mt: /dev/nrst0: retens: Invalid argument
> 
> Try 'retension'.  It was changed from 'retens' since the former is more
> apparently more standard.

Sidestepping a bit: will 2.1R mt also set (no)compression on Exabytes
capable of hardware compress? The &*^*( drive at work is a 8505 and
my ol' home 8200 does not grok compressed tapes.

Wilko
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