Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 10:53:42 MET From: Flemming Jacobsen <fj@login.dknet.dk> To: aa@jump.net (Allan Alford) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wangtek 51000HT 1/4" SCSI-2 QIC 1000 Message-ID: <199712110953.KAA17887@login.dknet.dk>
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Hi world,
[It seems like my first try at sending this got nuked by the
spam-filter. Maybe I should learn to take a hint :-)]
> I've been using the following syntax in my script:
>
> tar -cv /dev/nrst0 /foo
> tar -cv /dev/nrst0 /bar
> tar -cv /dev/nrst0 /foobar
Uhmmmm, you DO mean 'tar -cvf /dev/nrst0 /foo', right? Otherwise
your problem is pretty obvious - tar defaults to use /dev/rst0
(but a backup of the /dev/nrst0 device is allways nice ;-).
I realize that the missing 'f' probably is a typo. OTOH it would
account for the behaviour that you see.
> When I check the tape the next morning, I do:
>
> mt rewind
> (tape already seems to be rewound)
> tar -tv
> (yields the tar of foobar - the last from the list)
> mt fsf 1
> (nothing seems to happen)
> tar -tv
> (yields the tar of foobar - the last from the list)
Have a nice day
Flemming
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