On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote:
>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!!
>
>ceva

AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten 
data still in the drives buffer) will cause any data to goto the 
tape medium.

'mt' is an adjusting tool, and an inquiry tool, but is not normally 
considered a tape writer other than the above rather singular 
condition.  And its not mt that does that buffer flushing, its the 
drive making sure that everything that was written actually gets to 
the tape surface.

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