[lug] Tape always rewinds after mt command

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:36, William Petty wrote:
> I am using Suse 8.1 and needed to read in an old tar tape that was created as
> multiple files.  My problem is, when I use mt to skip to the second file, 
> it does so,
> pauses for a few seconds, and then rewinds back to the beginning of the tape
> before returning the command prompt.  So, any tar command always reads the
> first file on the tape (Which also rewinds when done).  The tape drive is an
> Exabyte 8500 8mm and the SCSI controller is an LSI (Symbios) 53875.  All
> drivers are default from the 8.1 installation.
> Thanks for any info you can provide.


Try the non-rewind tape device:

  /dev/st0  <== "scsi tape 0" device
  /dev/nst0 <== "non-rewind scsi tape 0" device

using:

  mt -f /dev/nst0 ...

hth,
Ed

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