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Re: exabute 8505 and the st module

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walt Bigelow)
Wed Jul 29 21:51:24 1998

Date: 	Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:48:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980729180515.26725A-100000@alice.stimpy.com>

nevermind, I can't believe I aksed that.  /dev/nst0  do'h!!!

Mark anohter one up to fatigue!

-Walt

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Walt Bigelow wrote:

> 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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