[Gllug] flushing tape drive cache

[Ryan Cartwright]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> 
>> Any ideas how (without rebooting) I can flush the cache? I've spent 
>> the last hour Googling for this but can find no way to do it. Tried 
>> `mt -f /dev/tape status` only to be told "/dev/tape is not a character 
>> special file".
>> Incidentally /dev/tape is a symlink to /dev/hda (HDD's are SCSI). `mt 
>> -f /dev/hda status` gives similar response as for /dev/tape.
> 
> 
> I may be being thick, or misunderstanding you here, but...
> 
> Why would a scsi tape drive be attached to /dev/hda which is the primary 
> channel of the first IDE/ATA controller of the system?
<snip>
Hi Martin,

Well a SCSI tape drive wouldn't but an ATAPI one might be.

my OP did say
 >we have sony AITi130 (ATAPI AIT-2) tape drives

the reason for me stating that the HDD's were SCSI was in case it anyone 
asked why the tape drive was the first IDE/ATA device and not a HDD.

thanks
Ryan
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