Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:41:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: write protected tapes Message-ID: <19990714164112.14786@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990714005511.97765A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from David Scheidt on Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:03:58AM -0500 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990714005511.97765A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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On Wednesday, 14 July 1999 at 1:03:58 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > Shouldn't trying to write to a write protected tape produce an > error? Yes. > 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: <ARCHIVE VIPER 150 21531 -003> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device It would be nice to know what version of FreeBSD you're running, but I'd guess that you've hit some kind of bug. How about a PR? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.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-questions" in the body of the message
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