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BUG: mt -f /dev/st0 eject fails

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Fearnley)
Tue Nov 19 16:32:42 1996

From: Chris Fearnley <cjf@ccs.craftech.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:12:53 -0500 (EST)
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This command works fine on all my Debian systems.  But the mt-st from
the 4.0 CD (and the older one I had installed both fail in similar manner.

[root@ccs redhat-update]# mt -f /dev/st0 eject
mt: unknown command "eject"
usage: mt [-v] [-h] [ -f device ] command [ count ]
commands: weof, wset, eof, fsf, fsfm, bsf, bsfm, fsr, bsr, fss, bss, rewind, 
          offline, rewoffl, retension, eod, seod, seek, tell, status, 
          erase, setblk, lock, unlock, load, compression, setdensity, 
          drvbuffer, stwrthreshold, stoptions, stsetoptions, stclearoptions, 
          defblksize, defdensity, defdrvbuffer, defcompression, densities, 
[root@ccs redhat-update]# rpm -qi mt-st
Name        : mt-st                       Distribution: Red Hat Linux Rembrandt
Version     : 0.4                               Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release     : 2                             Build Date: Fri Jul 26 13:15:09 1996
Install date: Tue Nov 19 15:53:01 1996      Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group       : Utilities/System              Source RPM: mt-st-0.4-2.src.rpm
Size        : 23425
Summary     : Control magnetic tape drive operation (mt)
Description :
The mt program can be used to perform many operations on tapes,
including rewind, eject, skipping files and blocks, etc.

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