On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can
> put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using
>
> mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1
>
> where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok,
> because I use it with tar.
Well, that's not quite the device you want to use anyway. If you're
trying to position the tape, you need to use /dev/nrft0. This is the
"non-rewinding" device. When you use /dev/rft0, it rewinds after every
operation.
> I'm getting
>
> mt: /dev/ftape: Input/output error
>
> and the tape isn't moving. Any ideas?
It may be that ftape realizes you're trying to use the wrong device, but
I'd hope it would give a more reasonable error message. Try /dev/nrft0 and
see how it works.
Sincerely,
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