Rewinding tapes

[Jonathan Belson]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> "mt rewind" is synchronous on all the tape drive I have used it on (dat,
> dlt, 9-track, 3490).

Apologies, it's 'tar' that seems to return when the drive is still busy 
- attempting to access the tape device before it's finished making 
groaning noises gives an input/output error.

# tar -cv /some/dir
<fx: groan whirr>
# tar t
tar: Error opening archive: Error reading '/dev/ast0': Input/output error

Cheers,

--Jon

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