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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
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