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exabute 8505 and the st module
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walt Bigelow)
Wed Jul 29 21:39:40 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:10:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I have a Exabyte 8505 driver and I am using linux 2.0.34. I ran into a
problem today when trying to extract tar files from an exabyte tape that
had many file markers (block of nulls). I issue a mt command: mt -f
/dev/st0 fsf 1, and for some reason the driver rewinds the tape after each
operation. When I issue the mt -f /dev/st0 tell, it is always at block 0.
I moved over to a SGI and I used thir dirver "tps0d6nr" which is a no
rewind option. I could not find a option within the driver on linux or
mt to tell it to turn auto rewind off. This is a problem in restoring
these tapes.
Does anyone know the secret to doing this? I read though README.st in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/ and to no avail. Is ther e a different
device minor number which the driver might recognise to do this?
Any help would be appricated!!
Thanks,
Walt
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