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From: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Scsi tape write protect status question
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:03:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5CF2AE.2020001@compro.net> (raw)

Sorry to bother you all with such an easy thing. I can't figure out how the
kernel knows I have a write protected tape in a drive that I open via

open("/dev/st0", O_RDWR, cf_flg, 0666)

Using the sgio interface I can only sense a write protect status after
attempting to to a write.
How can one know this before doing a write op?

Thanks in advance
Mark

             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 21:03 Mark Hounschell [this message]
2009-07-14 21:23 ` Scsi tape write protect status question Mark Hounschell
2009-07-15 10:52   ` Mark Hounschell

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