On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:10:07AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:28:02 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Has anyone else noted this behavior? > > "mt rewind" returns (completes) before tape is rewound > > Yes, it seems to be fairly a common behavior of tape drives. > Back in the days when I had to write shell scripts to do > backups, I always threw in a sleep call after any tape command. > Not all commands needed it, but wasting a few seconds on a > several hour job was much better than the random error that > would cause the entire job to fail. >
I was thinking along the same lines except I was not sure of an appropriate nap time. My thought was to do an "mt status > /dev/null" after the mt rewind. Since that blocks it would come back immediately or wait an appropriate time. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
