What's up with SCSI tape drives in Debian 1.2?

1997-01-11 Thread Robert Nicholson 
Everytime I install the distribution I notice that despite configure the 
tape driver and seeing the system report st0. I still have to MAKEDEV 
nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in 
/etc/makedev.cfg.

Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing something 
like

tar tf /dev/nst0

if I interrupt this I usually expect a rewind of my tape drive to occur
but not is I continue with another tar it will start where it left off.

My drive is a trusty reliable HP 1533A DDS2 mechanism.


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Re: What's up with SCSI tape drives in Debian 1.2?

1997-01-11 Thread Rob Browning 
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in 
 /etc/makedev.cfg.

I think this, at least, is fixed in the latest install disks.

 Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing something 
 like
 
 tar tf /dev/nst0
 
 if I interrupt this I usually expect a rewind of my tape drive to occur
 but not is I continue with another tar it will start where it left off.

nst0 is the non-rewinding device.  When a program closes it, the tape
stays where it was.  If you want rewind, use st0, the rewinding
device.

-- 
Rob


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