Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:58:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewinding tapes Message-ID: <20050519155812.GC82926@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <428CB5DB.4020005@witchspace.com> References: <428CAB4B.6080907@witchspace.com> <20050519152040.GB82926@dan.emsphone.com> <428CB5DB.4020005@witchspace.com>
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In the last episode (May 19), Jonathan Belson said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > "mt rewind" is synchronous on all the tape drive I have used it on > > (dat, dlt, 9-track, 3490). > > Apologies, it's 'tar' that seems to return when the drive is still > busy - attempting to access the tape device before it's finished > making groaning noises gives an input/output error. > > # tar -cv /some/dir > <fx: groan whirr> > # tar t > tar: Error opening archive: Error reading '/dev/ast0': Input/output error That's not my experience either. Maybe it's a bug in the ata code? I wonder if atapicam works for tape drives. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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