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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:48:15 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell is failing
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Don Sharp wrote:
> mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell
> 
> TapeGetPos: 6: The handle is invalid.
> 
> These two reports are associated with the tell request to mt. This works
> for another machine with a DAT drive. (This one is a QIC525 Tandberg
> 3800 unit).

Not all tape drives are supporting that operation. You should be able
to get the current block position by `mt -f /dev/nrmt0 status', though.

Corinna

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