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[Networker] Accessing tape device when no tape in drive in Linux?
2006-01-09 12:47:07
Is there any way to patch/modify st's behavior to allow commands such as
stinit or mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 to work with linux kernel 2.6 when
there is no tape in the drive? It seems like the kernel won't allow you to
access the drive at all if there is no tape in the drive, and thus
timeouts after like two minutes of wait. The operation succeeds if a tape
is loaded into the device during that time, but I can't/don't want to load
a tape just in order to set the variable block size.
//Oscar
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