1.\" Copyright (c) 1996 2.\" Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 5.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)mtio.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 |
36.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/mtio.4 131530 2004-07-03 18:29:24Z ru $ |
37.\" 38.Dd February 11, 1996 39.Dt MTIO 4 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm mtio 43.Nd FreeBSD magtape interface 44.Sh DESCRIPTION --- 12 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 57when the last requested read, write or seek has finished, or the end of the tape 58has been reached. 59The letter 60.Ql n 61is usually prepended to 62the name of the no-rewind devices. 63.Pp 64Tapes can be written with either fixed length records or variable length |
65records. 66See |
67.Xr sa 4 68for more information. 69Two end-of-file markers mark the end of a tape, and 70one end-of-file marker marks the end of a tape file. 71If the tape is not to be rewound it is positioned with the 72head in between the two tape marks, where the next write 73will over write the second end-of-file marker. 74.Pp --- 242 unchanged lines hidden --- |