On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Darrell May wrote:
>
> > I don't have a dat drive to test at the moment. Would
> > someone with a dat drive mind telling me if either of
> > these commands ejects the tape:
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
>
> I believe that they both do. The second certainly does. I've never used
> the first.
Both work on DAT drives and on the Sony AIT drive we have here.
They'll also work on drives that use 8mm tapes too.
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Peter
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