HI I am using a Dell DDS72 drive with DDS72 cart, Ubuntu 12.04 on i386.
> mt -f /dev/st0 retension This fails if cart is read-only, works with write-permit. This is HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE. It is very useful to be able to retension a tape that contains valuable data prior to reading that data, to reduce risk of read errors. Placing the cart in a writiable state risks the valuable data (especially if you have more than one drive online). regards Andrew Grillet Read my books: Know new taxis! http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006HURAQE If you are new to tape ;-} you might also want to read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006K1FSKA
