Rewinding tapes

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 19), Jonathan Belson said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > "mt rewind" is synchronous on all the tape drive I have used it on
> > (dat, dlt, 9-track, 3490).
> 
> Apologies, it's 'tar' that seems to return when the drive is still
> busy - attempting to access the tape device before it's finished
> making groaning noises gives an input/output error.
> 
> # tar -cv /some/dir
> <fx: groan whirr>
> # tar t
> tar: Error opening archive: Error reading '/dev/ast0': Input/output error

That's not my experience either.  Maybe it's a bug in the ata code?  I
wonder if atapicam works for tape drives.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com