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Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:42:00 -0800
On 17 Jan 99, at 23:09, Mike Montour wrote:
> Always rewind a tape when you're finished accessing it, since (at least,
> with floppy tapes) the header segments don't get written until you rewind
> (it's like 'sync' on a hard drive).
>
> The 'mt' program is used to control a tape drive (erasing, rewinding,
> status, etc) - see the man page. To see what's on the tape, use 'tar -tf
> /dev/st0'.
another thing comes to mind, if I use the /dev/nst0 to write the tars, must I
use /dev/nst0 to read/restore the tars? or does it matter?
b4 I ask too many more questions (and I have a lot of em floating around in
my head on this topic) is there a GOOD faq on this subject that
summarizes what everyone has been saying?
Harondel J. Sibble
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