>Dave Cinege wrote:
>>
>> Since some tape problem have been bought up...
>>
>> I'm unable to space forward the tape on my DAT. It appears to move
forward
>> to the desired place on the tape, but as soon as I try to access the tape it
>> rewinds back to block 0. (whether it is tar or just mt tell)
>
>Are you using the 'no rewind' tape device (e.g. /dev/nst0 or
>/dev/tapenr)? If not
>then the tape will always rewind after each command.
: P
All this time, and I've never seen this documented anywhere.
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