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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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