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| 34.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/mt/mt.1 94505 2002-04-12 13:16:04Z charnier $ | 34.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/mt/mt.1 95124 2002-04-20 12:18:28Z charnier $ |
| 35.\" 36.Dd June 6, 1993 37.Dt MT 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm mt 41.Nd magnetic tape manipulating program 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl f Ar tapename 45.Ar command 46.Op Ar count 47.Sh DESCRIPTION | 35.\" 36.Dd June 6, 1993 37.Dt MT 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm mt 41.Nd magnetic tape manipulating program 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl f Ar tapename 45.Ar command 46.Op Ar count 47.Sh DESCRIPTION |
| 48.Nm \&Mt 49is used to give commands to a magnetic tape drive. | 48The 49.Nm 50utility is used to give commands to a magnetic tape drive. |
| 50By default 51.Nm 52performs the requested operation once. Operations 53may be performed multiple times by specifying 54.Ar count . 55Note 56that 57.Ar tapename --- 163 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 221.Pp 222If a tape name is not specified, and the environment variable 223.Ev TAPE 224does not exist; 225.Nm 226uses the device 227.Pa /dev/nsa0 . 228.Pp | 51By default 52.Nm 53performs the requested operation once. Operations 54may be performed multiple times by specifying 55.Ar count . 56Note 57that 58.Ar tapename --- 163 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 222.Pp 223If a tape name is not specified, and the environment variable 224.Ev TAPE 225does not exist; 226.Nm 227uses the device 228.Pa /dev/nsa0 . 229.Pp |
| 229.Nm \&Mt 230returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, | 230The 231.Nm 232utility returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, |
| 2311 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed. 232.Pp 233The following density table was taken from the 234.Sq Historical sequential access density codes 235table (A-1) in Revision 11 of the SCSI-3 Stream Device Commands (SSC) 236working draft, dated November 11, 1997. 237.Pp 238The different density codes are as follows: --- 62 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 3016. This is not an American National Standard. The reference is based on 302 an industry standard definition of the media format. 303.Ed 304.Sh ENVIRONMENT 305If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 306.Nm Ns . 307.Bl -tag -width Fl 308.It Ev TAPE | 2331 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed. 234.Pp 235The following density table was taken from the 236.Sq Historical sequential access density codes 237table (A-1) in Revision 11 of the SCSI-3 Stream Device Commands (SSC) 238working draft, dated November 11, 1997. 239.Pp 240The different density codes are as follows: --- 62 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 3036. This is not an American National Standard. The reference is based on 304 an industry standard definition of the media format. 305.Ed 306.Sh ENVIRONMENT 307If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 308.Nm Ns . 309.Bl -tag -width Fl 310.It Ev TAPE |
| 309.Nm \&Mt 310checks the | 311The 312.Nm 313utility checks the |
| 311.Ev TAPE 312environment variable if the 313argument 314.Ar tapename 315is not given. 316.El 317.Sh FILES 318.Bl -tag -width /dev/*rsa[0-9]*xx -compact --- 38 unchanged lines hidden --- | 314.Ev TAPE 315environment variable if the 316argument 317.Ar tapename 318is not given. 319.El 320.Sh FILES 321.Bl -tag -width /dev/*rsa[0-9]*xx -compact --- 38 unchanged lines hidden --- |