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Subject: [Bug 12481] mt takes two minutes to determine that the tape drive is empty
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:10:34 -0800 (PST)
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------- Comment #2 from kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi  2009-01-19 11:10 -------
This is an application bug: it opens the device without the O_NONBLOCK flag.
The driver waits up to two minutes for the drive to become ready. You probably
earlier had an mt that opens tape with O_NONBLOCK (from mt-st?).


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