From: mfrankow@piper.hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) Subject: Re: tape retention? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 02:22:50 GMT
L.G. "Ted" Stern (stern@amath.washington.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr13.192932.12892@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett) writes:
: |>
: |> Dumb question warning --
: |>
: |> How do you do a tape retention under Linux? My drive runs very hot
: |> and I need to do this often to make sure all works well.
: |>
: |>
: |> Thanks in advance
: |>
: |>
: |> Keith Barrett
type mt -f /dev/<device> retension
replace <device> with the tape device. Should work wonders.
Mike