On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:53:54PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> I'm using successfully various modern tape drives including TKZ15,
> EXB8500 EXB8200, HP SureDAT 8 or 24.

sure enough, as per the st(4) man page, using the raw device works just
fine.

thanks to Michael Hitch for helping me figure this out.

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