From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 0:17:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.ntu.edu.au (darwin.ntu.edu.au [138.80.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D662814FAA for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com ([138.80.54.116]) by darwin.ntu.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21032; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:47:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id QAA02285; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:41:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990714164112.14786@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:41:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Scheidt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: write protected tapes References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from David Scheidt on Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:03:58AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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