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Re: Q:DAT WR-PROT mechanism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steffen Grunewald)
Wed Dec 4 02:27:47 1996
From: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
To: undcp013@stardust.undcp.org (Rainer Kirsch)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:23:09 +0100 (MET)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <32A3FF4C.431B@stardust.undcp.org> from "Rainer Kirsch" at Dec 3, 96 11:22:04 am
"Rainer Kirsch writes"
|>
|>
|> 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!
|> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
|> | Rainer KIRSCH undcp013@stardust.undcp.org |
|> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
|>
Make sure that it's not (by accident) a non-DDS tape. Non-DDS tapes may
be rejected (set to r/o) if DDS recognition is set on the drive.
Use another media.
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