Bug 577 - mt command no longer works correctly
Summary: mt command no longer works correctly
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 276
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mt-st
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1998-12-23 22:12 UTC by rolf
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-02-19 18:04:51 UTC
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Description rolf 1998-12-23 22:12:55 UTC 
After upgrading to RedHat 5.2 (from 4.2) I was no longer
able to space the tape backwards with mt -f /dev/nst0 bsf,
which I could on RedHat 4.2. Without it verification of
written data is hard.

The hardware:
Adaptec AHA2940 UW
HP DAT/8 (C1533A)
Comment 1 David Lawrence 1998-12-30 23:00:59 UTC 
*** Bug 577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The command "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 13" does not advance the
tape under release 5.2. Similarly "bsf 1" does not work.

Work around:
1. Symlink /dev/tape to /dev/nst0
   then "mt fsf 13" or
2. Replace /bin/mt of RedHat 5.2 with that of RedHat release
5.1
Comment 2 borgia 1999-01-05 07:10:59 UTC 
version 0.5 has a parser bug:

Changes in version 0.5b:
- corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if
  option -f was used
- added #include <errno.h> to stinit.c (for glibc)
- density 0x45 (TR-4) added to known density list

BTW, when I see "bug so and so has been marked a duplicate of this
bug"... for which values of "this" is it true? ;-)
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-19 18:04:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276 ***
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