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Re: Stopping tape from rewinding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Jung)
Fri Sep 8 07:07:38 1995
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 18:38:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Wolfgang Jung" <woju@keep.in-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950906164410.130N-100000@khotso.sacc.wn.apc.org> from "Louis Mandelstam" at Sep 6, 95 05:02:21 pm
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#Good day.
#
#I'm having a problem with a tape drive which rewinds automatically after
#doing anything, and I can't seem to prevent this. I'm not sure whether
#this is a software or hardware problem, but let's see what other Linux
#SCSI users can offer.
This is no BUG this is a Feature. (You should read some docs, then U
would know !)
#
#If I execute something like:
#
#tar vcf /dev/tape /root
do an ls -l /dev/tape and see to where it is linked. I suspect it is
linked to /dev/st0, which is the rewinding scsi-tapedevice, which rewinds
on close.
link it to /dev/nst0 which should be the NONrewinding scsi-tapedevice.
[...] You should remove this /dev/tape link completly so you have to
add the devicenames by hand.
Gruss
Wolfgang
