From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 12:29:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hudsucker.gamespot.com (hudsucker.gamespot.com [206.169.18.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D598811ABC for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsd@gamespot.com) Received: from gamespot.com (localhost.gamespot.com [127.0.0.1]) by hudsucker.gamespot.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA04672 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:31:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36CDCA2D.345FE0FC@gamespot.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:31:41 +0000 From: Jon Drukman Organization: GameSpot, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tape drive position Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is there a way to find out what position the tape in a scsi tape drive is at? when i used to use an exabyte drive on IRIX, mt status would tell me if the tape was rewound, or what fileno/blockno the tape was positioned at. mt status on freebsd with a HP Colorado T4000 drive just gives: Present Mode: Density = 0x45 Blocksize = 512 bytes ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable -- Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fear the government that fears your computer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message