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Re: hardware questions - tar to dat drive and ati rage 2c card under x

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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.net)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:46:32 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> i was reading that man page earlier, is it really necessary to rewind it?

You cannot eject a DAT tape without rewinding it; it rewinds
automatically when it receives an eject command. (That's why it
may take a long time to eject if you're using the non-rewinding
device.)

I do have a question about the device name, though: do you really
use st0 (the block device) rather than rst0 (the character device)
for this stuff? Typically under Unix, one uses the latter. Or is
st0 not a block device?

cjs 

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