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# 15  
Old 11-21-2013
You are right, Solaris does not have "mt tell".
Maybe only Linux has it? Its man page also states it does not work with all tapes.
In this case you must do your own book-keeping...
# 16  
Old 11-21-2013
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Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
You are right, Solaris does not have "mt tell".
Funny, that's where I found it. He may be having trouble finding mt though.
# 17  
Old 11-21-2013
And you are right, too: Solaris 11 has it.
I only checked Solaris 10.
# 18  
Old 11-21-2013
I will check as soon as I return to work tomorrow.

Are there any available UNIX ISOs? I use Virtual Machine Player. I currently have a Linux build on there. I believe it is called Lovelace or Lovelock.
# 19  
Old 11-22-2013
My apologies. Solaris is not my forte. Surely it must have other tools for managing the tape but I don't know... I'm going to move this into the Solaris forum where you might get better answers.

BSD is a popular "true" UNIX for x86 machines. There's also an OpenSolaris these days, or whatever descended from it.
# 20  
Old 11-22-2013
Hmmm, here's another way you could try it.
Code:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | tar vtf -

dd may complain about tar forcing it to quit early but that's exactly why we pipe it into tar, to kill it when the archive ends, not when the tape ends. dd should print rough statistics on how much was read, in blocks of 512, once it is done...
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