On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, John Stoffel wrote:

JS> As I recall, there's an issue with the Linux ST/SG drivers in that it
JS> wants to have a tape in the drive before it will allow you to send
JS> most commands (all?) to the drive.  That might be the issue.  Try the
JS> following:
JS> 
JS> - put in a tape
JS> - mt -f /dev/st0 setblksize 0
JS> - run tests
JS> - eject tape
JS> - put a new tape in
JS> - run tests.  Do they fail?
JS> - mt setblksize again
JS> 
JS> and see what happens.

As mentioned in previous posts, that's about what I did, and it worked. Do 
you know if this is persistent through drive power cycles? And/or is there 
any way to get the st driver to behave differently so that it allows 
commands even though there isn't a tape in the drive?

//Oscar

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