From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 23: 4:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D278D14DFC for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 80238 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1999 06:03:58 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.41) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 1999 06:03:58 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:03:58 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: write protected tapes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shouldn't trying to write to a write protected tape produce an error? tar cvf /dev/rsa0 /foo produced no errors using a locked QIC tape in my drive. It clearly didn't cause any activity on the tape either. cpio behaves the same way. The device in question is a sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device Thanks. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message