on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, imran (imran.sheth@patni.com) wrote: > Hi All > I am quite new to linux / debian linux. currently I am working with rmt and > mt utility > my objective is to test all options provided by mt and rmt . I don't have > magnetic tape drive installed on my debian machine. Is it required to > install magnetic tape drive to work with mt and rmt utility ?? If it is not > available to the what extent I can perform my testing ??? What specifically are you trying to test? I don't know if there's a null tape device, but it seems that this would be what you want. Otherwise, an old 2-4 GiB DAT device shouldn't cost too much off eBay or another auction or used HW source. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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