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RE: Probelm with SCSI tapes
On 06-Feb-99 Itamar S.-T. wrote:
> The SCSI tapes we have are not working for some reason. Specifically, while
> you can write and read to them (using kbackup and BRU), and send them
> commands using mt, you can't do "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1", which means you
> can't append backups. The ssf command just gives an I/O error.
I bet you're using mt-st version 0.5 (mt -v).
> Changes in version 0.5b:
> - corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if
> option -f was used
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> - added #include <errno.h> to stinit.c (for glibc)
> - density 0x45 (TR-4) added to known density list
In fact, I haven't tried 0.5b myself. When I noticed 0.5 is buggy, I downgraded
to good old 0.4 and am happy since then :)
Regards,
Evgeny
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