From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 4 06:57:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA04849 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:57:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04775 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:55:36 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA06750; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 15:55:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA14644; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 15:54:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA23808; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 14:31:16 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509041231.OAA23808@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mt(1) erase not working on wt driver in FreeBSD-stable To: john@starfire.mn.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 14:31:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199509030105.UAA02051@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Sep 2, 95 08:05:25 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 953 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As john@starfire.mn.org wrote: > > Well, I'm pretty sure I've got the whole system up to -stable, anyway, > so if there were any changes between 2.0.5R and -stable that would > cause this, I'll look at that first if someone points me in the right > direction. Otherwise, in a nutshell: > dexter# mt -f /dev/rwt0 era > mt: /dev/rwt0: erase: Invalid argument > I presume that this is not the desired behavior, but just in case this > was superceded by something else, I thought I'd not jump to any > conclusions (and yes, the same thing happens on the no-rewind device). Can somebody loan me a wt-style drive? I'm probably the last one who's been touching mt(1), i'd volunteer to make it understand wt drives if i had access to one. (Perhaps even remote access in combination with talk might work.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)