Debian -- Details of package mt-st in sid (original) (raw)

Package: mt-st (1.8-2 and others)

Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka mt)

Mt-st contains a version of "mt" that is aware of Linux's SCSI tape driver. Mt-st is able to set some esoteric control flags like tape partitions.

Mt-st provides an alternative to the GNU version of mt, in the cpio package.

It also comes with stinit, a program to be run at boot time to set up tape defaults.

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