From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 12:22:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16861 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16821 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA24326 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA17152 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id VAA12274 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:11:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601112011.VAA12274@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:11:53 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601111114.WAA02562@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jan 11, 96 10:14:27 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > > SunOS 4.x for example -- from the mt(1) man page: > > retension Rewind the cartridge tape completely, then wind > it forward to the end of the reel and back to > beginning-of-tape to smooth out tape tension. Ok. I gonna rename it. > While talking about mt, how difficult would it be to have 'mt status' > behaviour similar to SunOS 4.x (in particular having it show the current > file number)? No idea on this. Can you please send me the output of this command? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)