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Subject: Rewinding tapes
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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

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