In the last episode (May 19), Jonathan Belson said:
> I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it,
> then reads back the data that was stored as a test.
> 
> The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and
> subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has
> finished.

"mt rewind" is synchronous on all the tape drive I have used it on (dat,
dlt, 9-track, 3490).

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        Dan Nelson
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