LOCK

Lock media.

UNLOCK

Unlock media.

REWIND

Rewind tape.

RUN

Rewind and unload tape.

READ

Read ‘readsize’ blocks.

WRITE

Write ‘writesize’ blocks.

WTM

Write ‘count’ tapemark(s).

FSF

Forward space ‘count’ file(s).

FSR

Forward space’count’ block(s).

BSF

Backward space ‘count’ file(s).

BSR

Backward space ‘count’ block(s).

READPOS

Read blockid.

LOCATE

Locate ‘blockid’.

ERG

Erase gap.

COMP

Set compression on or off.

ECC

Set ECC on or off.

MARGIN

Set EOT margin ‘margin’.

STATUS

Display status.

ASCII

Set ASCII data block display mode.

EBCDIC

Set EBCDIC data block display mode.

DUMP

Display data block at offset ‘offset’ in length ‘length’.

ERASE

Erase entire tape (data security erase).

HELP or ?

Display usage information.

EXIT or QUIT

Exit program.

arguments:

readsize

Specifies the number of blocks to read. readsize must be a value from 0 to 65535.
A value of 0 (which is the default) means all blocks, whereas any other number

specifies the actual count of blocks to read.

writesize

Specifies the number of blocks to write. writesize must be a value from 0 to 65535.
A value of 0 (which is the default) means random, whereas any other number spe-
cifies the actual count of blocks to write.

count

Specifies the number of files, blocks or tape marks to process.

blockid

Specifies the ID of the block to be located.

value

Specifies the settings for compression and ECC. A value of ‘0’ means OFF,
whereas a value of ‘1’ means ON. The default is ‘1’ (ON).

margin

Specifies the EOT margin. margin must a value from 0 to 65535, the default is ‘0’.

offset

Specifies the offset from which data blocks are to be dumped.

length

Specifies the length of data blocks to be dumped.

6.1.4 Examples

Example 1:

Display the status of SCSI tape device “Tape0”.

FTAPE –f Tape0 STATUS

6.1.5 Sample Utility Output

Sample 1:

Display the status of SCSI tape device “Tape0”.

D:\Hercules>ftape

Fish's Win32 SCSI Tape Test Utility, v1.6.1.353

Copyright (C) 2004-2007, Software Development Laboratories

http://www.softdevlabs.com (fish@softdevlabs.com)

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Command? status

Retrieving status...

Warning! Unable to request variable blocksized i/o

due to media parameters retrieval failure!