Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports - What is the standard for "ported"? Message-ID: <199510300334.TAA09564@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510291530.E20975-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Oct 29, 95 03:42:52 pm
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> 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)
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> #!/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
^^^^^^^^^^ this dissables the button
> /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
^^^^^^^^ this enables it again (on close)
> /root/dump.log
> /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl
^^^^^^^^ so does this
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