Subject: Re: mt load?
To: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/05/2006 15:20:59
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ben Collver wrote:
> When I use "mt offline" with my tape drive, it ejects the tape. With
> Linux, I could use "mt load" and the drive would pull the tape back in.
> Just out of curiosity, is there a way to do this in NetBSD?
Probably because 99% of the drives out there where you'd want to do this
with have a Picker SCSI device you can use pkgsrc/sysutils/mtx or chio(1)
on.
There is a similar function that "closes" the drive door on CDROMs, if
they support it. Check eject(8).
~BAS