Re: What's up with SCSI tape drives in Debian 1.2?

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Robert Nicholson <robert@elastica.com> writes:

> nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in 
> /etc/makedev.cfg.

I think this, at least, is fixed in the latest install disks.

> Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing something 
> like
> 
> tar tf /dev/nst0
> 
> if I interrupt this I usually expect a rewind of my tape drive to occur
> but not is I continue with another tar it will start where it left off.

nst0 is the non-rewinding device.  When a program closes it, the tape
stays where it was.  If you want rewind, use st0, the rewinding
device.

-- 
Rob


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