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Re: Stopping tape from rewinding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Mandelstam)
Fri Sep 8 04:40:23 1995
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 09:30:04 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Louis Mandelstam <louis@khotso.sacc.wn.apc.org>
To: Bryan Levin <blevin@netcom.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509070124.SAA27770@netcom20.netcom.com>
On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Bryan Levin wrote:
> what is /dev/tape linked to? /dev/st0 is the NON-rewinding device, /dev/nst0
> is the REWINDING one (or vice versa) ;-)
>
> that's all that comes to mind -
Simple as that - tried it and it solved my problem.
Thanks to all who responded so quickly, I knew posting to the list would
help me out. ;-)
I've linked /dev/tape to /dev/nst0 now and the tape is behaving the way I
wanted.
Regards
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