From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 07:29:02 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 8C7FF16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E6943D2D for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:29:01 -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 i2NFbnOn094165 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:37:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Shawn Guillemette" To: "Questions" Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:28:57 -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: Wanted to ask the questions again during the day 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 15:29:02 -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