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Q:DAT WR-PROT mechanism

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rainer Kirsch)
Tue Dec 3 11:06:39 1996

To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: Rainer Kirsch <undcp013@stardust.undcp.org>
Date: 	Tue, 03 Dec 1996 11:22:04 +0100


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.

Please send your answers via email.
Thank you!
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| Rainer KIRSCH                 undcp013@stardust.undcp.org |
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