In a message dated: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:07:07 EST
mike ledoux said:
>'mt' allows you to give control commands to a magnetic tape
>device. The most common commands are 'mt rewind', 'mt offline', and
>'mt erase'. 'mt rewind' and 'mt erase' do exactly what you'd
>expect. 'mt offline' rewinds and, if possible, ejects the tape.
What I find interesting is that there is both an 'offline' command and a
'rewoffline' command. As if you could eject the tape without rewinding by
using the 'offline' option, which isn't the case that I know of.
Though I suppose you could send the drive "offline" to that it no longer
responds to commands, and it wouldn't eject the tape if it didn't have that
capability.
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Seeya,
Paul
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