I don't think it was me, but I have the same condition:

If I eject a tape using "mt -f /dev/erst0 st" then insert a new tape, I
always get a I/O error on the first access to the new tape.  Subsequent
access works just fine.


On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> I'm sorry- I lost this mail... who was it that had the problem with
> the scsi tape driver not eating the unit attention on first access?
> 
> 

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