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8.5.1.9: MTNOP

No op, is supposed to set the tape status only (to be read with MTIOCGET, see Query the tape status). For zftape this results in reading the header segments if this hasn't been done already and otherwise flushes the write buffers to tape (unless the driver is off-line, see MTOFFL). This was a real no-op for ftape-2.x resp. sftape.

Example
This command cannot be issued alone by the mt program but a `mt status' results in sending the MTNOP command to the drive before reading the tape status with MTIOCGET

mt -f /dev/nqft0 status

References
see MTIOCGET
see MTOFFL


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