From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jan 25 15:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1910814F02 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA43412; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:55:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:55:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Palle Girgensohn Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot mt retension (seagate python) Message-ID: <20000126095555.C43103@freebie.lemis.com> References: <388DD60D.B33EAF26@partitur.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <388DD60D.B33EAF26@partitur.se> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 17:57:49 +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Seagate Python (DSS-20) tape streamer, and it won't accept > a retension command. Well, it accepts it, but nothing happens. Any > ideas why this is so? > This is what happens: > > $ mt ret > $ <---- immediately, I get a fresh prompt. nothing happens. I don't know the DSS-20, but if it's a modern tape drive, it doesn't support retensioning. The driver accepts and ignores the command. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message