Does ontape rewind the Tape BEFORE archiving?

Hi, Does ontape rewind the Tape BEFORE archiving? Is it possible to "ontape" to a Tape already written with "No rewind" option?

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:49:54 -0400, Murat wrote: > Hi, > Does ontape rewind the Tape BEFORE archiving? Is it possible to "ontape" to a > Tape already written with "No rewind" option? Ontape does not rewind the tape before starting unfortunately it does close and reopen the tape device/file three times expecting that the tape will rewind each time. So using the norewind device will not work as the tape will be left in the middle and not rewound so ontape will quite when it does not reread the header page on reopening the tape. You cannot either position the tape to say file #2 and use the rewind device because the close will rewind the tape to the beginning of the tape not the beginning of the file. If you make archives to a file other than the first one on a tape you will have to dd the file to the beginning of another tape before you can restore the archive. Art S. Kagel