[lug] Tape always rewinds after mt command

[John Hernandez]

On Solaris, the 'n' for no rewind is at the end of the device filename 
eg. /dev/rmt/0n versus /dev/rmt/0

William Petty wrote:
> Thanks that worked.  I never knew that the nst device existed.  On our 
> Sun machines,
> the mt commands have always worked, although they are rmt devices.  
> Maybe those
> are no-rewinde by default.
> 
> 
> At 06:53 PM 1/3/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> 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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