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Sony SDT-5200 DAT Tape Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Mon May 12 13:44:53 1997
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: maillard@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:39:41 -0400
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@blue.me.vt.edu>
Hi,
Trying to start using my new tape drive (Sony SDT-5200 DAT "Nice") and already
a couple of questions:
1) when compiling the kernel, I included scsi support and scsi disk support
(booting from a scsi drive) but left tape, cd-rom, and generic support as
modules. Is this the recommended way? In particular, does the tape module st
unload itself safely, i.e. after the tape is rewound?
2) Using the mt commands, I can't seem to erase the tape
--
mt -f /dev/st0 erase
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seems to lock the drive and the device stays busy untill I reboot. Am I just
not suppose to erase the tape?
3) Are all DDS and DDS-2 Tapes formatted, i.e. no format is necessary?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
PS: teh drive is connected to a BusLogic BT-958. Running kernel 2.0.30 on a
PentiumPro system.
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Julien Maillard maillard@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
tel: (540) 231 5846, fax: (540) 231 8836
