On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:46:32AM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:

> I've tried to: mt eom , mt bsf 2, mt fsf 1. Now I should be at the last
> file on the tape, right?  but
> 
> # mt rewind
> # mt eom
> # mt status
> SCSI tape drive, residual=0
> ds=3<Mounted>
> er=0
> blocksize: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> density: 19 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> current file number: -1
> current block number: -1

try adding -f /nrst0 to the mt operations, or export TAPE=/dev/nrst0.

the standard /dev/rst0 rewinds between operations.

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