Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:05:47 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Rewinding tapes Message-ID: <428CAB4B.6080907@witchspace.com>
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Hiya I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, then reads back the data that was stored as a test. The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has finished. Is there a way to find out when the tape has finished rewinding, or at least to rewind synchronously? The drive is an ATA Seagate STT2401A. Cheers, --Jon http://www.witchspace.com
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