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SubjectRe: Problems with SCSI tape... kernel related?
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Glenn Lamb wrote:

> (cc'ing the st.c author)
>
> Relevant details first:
> kernel: vanilla 2.2.5 (no ac patches)
> distrib: redhat 5.2 with 2.2 enhancements
> tape drive: exabyte 8500 (Sun)
> scsi: advansys
>

(snip)

> The first command goes to the end of the tape, the second is supposed
> to go to the beginning of the file before your current position. The
> two commands together are supposed to move me to the beginning of the
> last file on the tape (so I can do a verify of what I just backed up)
>
> Now here comes the weird part. If I don't use the -t option, but in-
> stead use the TAPE environment variable or make a softlink to /dev/nst0
> from /dev/tape, it works:
>

(snip)

Not sure if this is what's causing your problem, but the version of mt
that ships with RH 5.2 is broken. Try downloading and building
mt-st-0.5b. From the README:

Changes in version 0.5b:
- corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if
option -f was used
- added #include <errno.h> to stinit.c (for glibc)
- density 0x45 (TR-4) added to known density list

Steve



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