To the driver, next time it talks to the drive.
>Several hours/days/months later, open is called by a new tape user.
>Is this user going to get errors reported during a previous tape
>session? Or is this user going to get a Unit attention "error" when,
>in fact, no error for a completely new session, with a completely new
>tape, has occurred.
None of the above. The driver talks to the drive, will get back a unit
attention and handle it internally (i.e. reset some values). The new
tar process would'nt see a error.
Gerd