We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
for backups.  It appears that after every command issued to the
system, it rewinds the tape.  Whether it's a write or an fsf,
it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
rather annoying.

Is there a configuration setting of some sort that needs to be
set to make it not do that?

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In article <10sjg69rg704p41@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeremy Billones <billones@radix.net> wrote:
>We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
>for backups.  It appears that after every command issued to the
>system, it rewinds the tape.  Whether it's a write or an fsf,
>it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
>rather annoying.

To answer my own question, I was using /dev/st0 rather than /dev/nst0.

*bangs head against keyboard*

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Jeremy Billones
"Excel balances out our desire to throttle that annoying talking paper
clip by being chock-full of useful features."
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UNIX?

IIRC on UNIXen this behaviour depends on what device name do you open - one
has auto rewind, another has no.

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"Jeremy Billones" <billones@radix.net> wrote in message
news:10sjg69rg704p41@corp.supernews.com...
> We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system
> for backups.  It appears that after every command issued to the
> system, it rewinds the tape.  Whether it's a write or an fsf,
> it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is
> rather annoying.
>
> Is there a configuration setting of some sort that needs to be
> set to make it not do that?
>
> --
> Jeremy Billones
> "Excel balances out our desire to throttle that annoying talking paper
> clip by being chock-full of useful features."
>                                  - Aaron Schatz, footballoutsiders.com

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