[1056] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Q:DAT WR-PROT mechanism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Dec 3 11:02:20 1996
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:57:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Rainer Kirsch <undcp013@stardust.undcp.org>
cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <32A3FF4C.431B@stardust.undcp.org>
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Rainer Kirsch wrote:
>
> Is it possible to override the WR-PROT (write protect) mechanism of DAT
> tapes within a SCSI-2 DAT drive and mt-st?
> mt status
> constantly reports WR-PROT with one tape ignoring the position of the
> write protect slider.
You're not trying to write data to an audio grade tape...are you?
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