dear thorsten and franco,
thank you for your replies. i did exactly the commands that your wrote
but it still doesn't read the tape. the exb 2000 drive just blinks and the
command prompt shows up at once on the monitor. is there any way by which
i can find out if the drive has been recongized. kudzu says that it did
and it configured the device but are there other ways to verify this?
cheers,
mahar
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> 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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