On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Charles Carroll wrote: > All, > > I have managed to get the system installed on Powerbook G4 1Ghz, with > Radeon Mobility Video card. Graphical Installation is a bit hard to > read, but gets the job done, and the colors straighten out once video > is selected in Xserver Configuration. > > Attempting to do a raw device dump from a SCSI tape drive. > > Background: PCMCIA SCSI Controller Adaptec 1480 SlimSCSI. Startup > shows PCMCIA services starting after SCSI driver, fails to load AIC7XXX > module, but card works. Rawdevice Service is supposed to start at > bootup, but configuation shows it is not running. > > Tape Drives used: Seagate Python, Exebyte 8900. > > I can make a tar to the tape drive and read the directory off the > drive once I have done that. Using DD, I can do a dump from the tape > drive > (dd if=/dev/st0 | od -x | more) and read the data from the tar saved to > the drive. If I take a tape that has no file system on it, and attempt > to do a dump from the tape, I get an I/O error. I think this is > related to the rawdevice service not running. When I attempt to start > it, it fails. > > Is there a problem with this? I know 9.1 is a beta. I loaded it > because video support for the Radeon and would like to be able to work > in Lab environment. I know this is not a final release. Just checking > to see if there is something I can do with this build, or need to step > back to 8.2, or wait for 9.1 final. >
Can't say I've ever seen anyone try to use a tape drive like that. Afaik, tapes have no filesystem, and I've always used tar to both write and read to/from the tape. Or dump. I've never used dd. This method worked in 8.2 I take it? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
