This directory contains two programs; mt and stinit. Mt is basically
a "standard" mt with additional commands to send the ioctls specific
to the Linux SCSI tape driver. The source supports all ioctls up to
kernel version 2.1.95 (and probably 2.2) but it can also be compiled
in 2.0.x (and hopefully with 1.2.x). Although this mt program is
tailored for SCSI tape, it can also be used with other Linux tape
drivers using the same ioctls (some of the commands may not work
with all drivers).

Stinit is a program to initialize the tape drive characteristics. The
current version should be considered alpha. See README.stinit for more
information.

The files:
README        - This file.
README.stinit - Information about the stinit program
COPYING       - The GNU Public License
Makefile      - Makefile for programs
mt.c          - The mt source
mt.1          - The man page for mt
stinit.c      - The stinit source
stinit.8      - The man page for stinit
stinit.def.examples - example configurations for different devices

Installation:
- review the makefile
- make
- make install

Changes in version 0.5b:
- corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if
  option -f was used
- added #include <errno.h> to stinit.c (for glibc)
- density 0x45 (TR-4) added to known density list

Changes in version 0.5:
- utility stinit added to package
- command asf added
- command datcompression not compiled in default configuration
- support added for setting timeouts
- bugs in argument parsing corrected
- help prints all commands
- binaries not distributed any more
- mt code cleaned
- GNU Public License used for both programs

Changes in version 0.4:
- support for the ioctls for partitioned tapes
- compiles also with 1.2.13
- the driver options can be specified also with keywords
- floppy tape type is shown
- (not working) support for other operating systems removed

Changes in version 0.3:
- support for new ioctls
- accepts hexadecimal numbers with prefix 0x
- the datcompression command improved (although it is being overrided
  by the command compression using a new ioctl)
- bus fixes

August 16, 1998  Kai Makisara (email Kai.Makisara@metla.fi)
