dds tape move action

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear all,
I have an dds tape device on my hp-ux10.20 maschine. I did not use it a long time now and forgott the method to move the tape.
I remember that there was a command to move from one resource on the tape to another and so on.
I have actually three tar depots on my tape and when I do a tar lt I only get the list of the first depot.

Thanks for a hint,

Oliver

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Oliver,

Could it be that you only get the last tar file ?

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mnb rew
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0mnb

Hope it helps,
Robert-Jan

[Stefan Farrelly]

mt -t /dev/rmt/Xmn fsf 1

This will fast forward the tape 1 record (but not rewind it). Replace Xmn with your tape device, eg. 0mn

[Mark Grant]

Oliver,

Have a look at the "mt" man page. Use the no-rewind device which will probably have an "n" at the end of it as in "/dev/rmt/0mn". Useful commands are "rew" to rewind the tape, fsf n, to move forward "n" records and "offl" to eject the tape.

[Keith Bevan_1]

Oliver,

Rewind to beginning of tape :-

mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rewind

0mn is for the no rewind device so you can move forwards and backwards without the tape rewinding automatically)

To move tape forward substitute the rewind with :-

fsf Forward space count files.
(ie mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1)
fsr Forward space count records.


Top move backwards substitute the rew for :-

bsf Backward space count files.

bsr Backward space count records.


More information can be obtained from theman page by typing :-

man mt

Hope this helps.

Keith