Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

1998-07-27 Thread Will Lowe
> 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. Yes, that seems to be working now. Thanks. :)

Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

1998-07-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
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