Re: Automating a tar -M... Looking for ideas

From: cyber0ne (ddonahue_at_ccs.neu.edu)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 09:03:41 -0800

Worth testing. My tape device doesn't physically eject tapes, but
rather (when given such a command) places the device into an offline
state. Hopefully, testing the status after "ejecting" won't detect the
still-in-the-device tape and think it's the next one. It will likely
work fine, but I'll have to test next time I'm at the console.

Sidebar: I've never seen the tctl command before, rather been using mt
instead. Being somewhat new to tape devices, is there a benefit of one
command over the other? Perusing the man pages shows them to be pretty
similar. If it's relevant, the device is a Seagate Travan TR-5 10/20
IDE drive and the system hosting it is an old PC running Slackware
Linux.
Thanks for the help :)

Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

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