From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 29 12:55:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA17105 for current-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:55:03 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17087 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:54:56 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id PAA03176; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:42:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:42:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Ports - What is the standard for "ported"? To: Frank Durda IV cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Frank Durda IV wrote: > a WangDAT tape drive that under 2.0.5 won't let you remove the media until > you reboot the system, OR you can issue a mt offline, remove the media, and > then reboot to get the drive to load new media - that really stinks and this problem must be unique to WangDAT or at least non-exabyte 4mm tape drives. i use a 4mm for daily backup. unload the tape with "/usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl". load a new tape every morning and haev no problems at all. here is my dump.4mm script (the rewind gets the tape started, should not be needed but is, alas) #!/bin/sh echo "" >> dump.log echo "" >> dump.log echo "" >> dump.log /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1a 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1e 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/rst0 /dev/sd1f 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346