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RE: SCSI Dat Tape...
Thanks! I'll try this tonight, see what it does!
>From: "Pugh, Mike L" <[email protected]>
>To: "'Alexander Wallace'" <[email protected]>,
>"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: SCSI Dat Tape...
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:15:59 +0100
>
>My DAT tape works as device /dev/st0 ...
>
>rewind the tape: mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
>eject the tape: mt -f /dev/st0 eject
>create a tar archive: tar -cvzf /dev/st0 <files or directories to be
>tarr'd)
>extract a tar archive: tar -xzvf /dev/st0 *
>
>If you want an easy way to remember your tape device, create a symbolic
>link
>to it:
>ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape
>and then use /dev/tape as the device name in the above examples instead of
>/dev/st0
>
>Hope this helps!
>Mike.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Wallace [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: 11 April 2001 15:37
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: SCSI Dat Tape...
>
>
>Here is another question... I have a DAT 2 gig tape drive, connected to an
>addaptec pci scsi controller... The controler shows if I do lspci... But
>I'm
>
>not sure if drivers were loaded for it (i don't know how to check)
>
>I couldn't find any backup software under gnome (or anywhere) is there one
>with 1.9 of libranet? i know there was one on 1.2.2
>
>How can I make the tape drive work?
>
>Thanks!
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