On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:31:17PM -0800, john heasley wrote:
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> Anyway, btest succeeds, but bfill fails in trying to append a block after
> the tape EOM. I admit to not understanding why it expects to be able to
> write after the end of the tape.
mt(1):
eew Enable or disabled early warning EOM behaviour. Count is set
to nonzero to enable, zero to disable.
Try to set it before you backup something:
mt -f /dev/nrst0 eew 1
Btw, this is IMHO not pkgsrc related. It's a netbsd problem.
Feel free to redirect it to current-users.
Bernd