Opensuse mt command


 
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# 1  
Old 11-06-2008
Data Opensuse mt command

do not have lock and unlock function,
is any way to lock the tape drive
under opensuse 10?

thanks
# 2  
Old 11-11-2008
Are you sure?

mt(1): control magnetic tape drive operation - Linux man page

what version of mt are you running? what does ldd for mt tell you?
# 3  
Old 11-12-2008
Hi this is the SUSE version

Quote:
mt --version
mt (GNU cpio 2.6)
mt --help
Usage: mt [-V] [-f device] [--file=device] [--rsh-command=command]
[--help] [--version] operation [count]
# 4  
Old 11-12-2008
This my FC7 version
Quote:
mt --version
mt-st v. 0.9b
mt --help
usage: mt [-v] [--version] [-h] [ -f device ] command [ count ]
mt -h
usage: mt [-v] [--version] [-h] [ -f device ] command [ count ]
commands: weof, wset, eof, fsf, fsfm, bsf, bsfm, fsr, bsr, fss, bss, rewind,
offline, rewoffl, eject, retension, eod, seod, seek, tell, status,
erase, setblk, lock, unlock, load, compression, setdensity,
drvbuffer, stwrthreshold, stoptions, stsetoptions, stclearoptions,
defblksize, defdensity, defdrvbuffer, defcompression, stsetcln,
sttimeout, stlongtimeout, densities, setpartition, mkpartition,
partseek, asf.
# 5  
Old 11-12-2008
see if you can find an rpm for a later version or one with the features you need
a better way might be to find it from one of the suse repositories
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