From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 19: 3:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alchemistry.net (alchemistry.net [160.79.102.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356A337B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail@krel.org) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (helo=ilya) by alchemistry.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14vrPo-000HZ7-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 May 2001 22:03:24 -0400 Message-ID: <003101c0d507$a698c110$0100a8c0@ilya> From: "Ilya" To: References: <20010505012231.92164.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: dds2 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 22:03:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can someone tell me why after running ceratin commands (below) from freebsdzine.org my mt status is still at file 0? while it supposed to be on file 3. thx a lot mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 1: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 2: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 3: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 root@alchemistry$ cd /tmp/ root@alchemistry$ echo 'This is the first dummy file' > file1 root@alchemistry$ cp /kernel file2 root@alchemistry$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=file3 bs=1024 count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 0.006787 secs (301756 bytes/sec) root@alchemistry$ mt rewind root@alchemistry$ dd if=file1 of /dev/nrsa0 dd: unknown operand of root@alchemistry$ dd if=file1 of=/dev/nrsa0 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 29 bytes transferred in 0.089065 secs (326 bytes/sec) root@alchemistry$ dd if=file2 of=/dev/nrsa0 5203+1 records in 5203+1 records out 2664057 bytes transferred in 43.167790 secs (61714 bytes/sec) root@alchemistry$ dd if=file3 of=/dev/nrsa0 4+0 records in 4+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 0.099870 secs (20507 bytes/sec) root@alchemistry$ mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 1: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 2: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 3: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message