From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 4 13:02:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA07507 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA07500 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:02:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16096; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 16:00:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 16:02:08 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Chris Shenton cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "mt eject" nonexistent? (FBSD-2.2.5) In-Reply-To: <199711041946.OAA25181@absinthe.i3inc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think you can get it to eject by usingone of the other /dev entries with a different minor number = I seem to recall the opposite problem where they would eject on me after a backup and I didnt want them to. On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Chris Shenton wrote: > I'm at 2.2.5-STABLE and was looking for something to eject tape from a > drive so I can use it with Amanda on a little 4-tape juke. Am I being > stupid or doesn't FreeBSD have an "mt eject" or "mt unload" command? > If I'm just being stupid and have missed the command, please > liberate me from my ignorance. :-) > > Many other OSs do, for hardware that groks this function. I'd really > like to see it on my fave OS :-) > >