On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Craig White wrote: > suggest using /dev/nst0 rather than /dev/st0 which causes it to rewind > because these things are very imprecise things and you will never know > where the tape is positioned unless it is rewound to start. /dev/st0 is fine...in addition, when you put a tape into these drives, the drive automatically rewinds it, to find the beginning of the tape, in the first place. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list