Re: exabyte 8200

From: Thorsten Kranzkowski (dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 06:21:11 EST


On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:55:55AM +0800, mlagmay@nigs.upd.edu.ph wrote:
>
>
> hi,
>
> i an trying to install an exb 8200 tape device on my dec machine (linux
> 6.2 os). kudzu recognized the device but the tape device is still not in
> fstab. does anybody know how to configure and mount the device?

you do not mount a tape device, so it doesn't make sense for it to appear in
/etc/fstab.

you can use tar to read and write tapes, e.g.:

tar cvf /dev/nst0 /usr/src/linux # write the tape with the
                                                # contents of /usr/src/linux

tar tvf /dev/nst0 # see what's written on the
                                                # tape

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind # obvious: rewind the tape

see 'man tar', 'tar --help' and 'man mt' for further information. There are
also other ways to write a tape: cpio, ...

> instructions on how to read the files inside the tape will also be highly
> appreciated.
>
> mahar
>

Thorsten.

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