juergen,

Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@netbsd.org> wrote:

[...]

> > popeye# tar (child): only wrote 2048 of 2510 bytes to /dev/st0
> 
> Does it work with /dev/rst0 ? /dev/st0 is a block device.

Seems like. But using the raw device isn't the intended way to access
tape drives, is it?

[...]

> Command 0x08 is READ. I suppose this is the result reading an empty tape.

Yes, but there's no problem about that. The tape is in deed empty.

cheers,
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