I have just switched from RedHat 4.2 (gee, it seems I preface all my mail to this list with that...<grin>) and am having a problem accessing my tape drive (a Conner DDS-2 SCSI drive) The drive responds to the mt commands I have issued (ie, mt tell, mt datcompression, mt rewind, etc) but I have been unable to either restore any of the backups I already had on tape before the switch or write to tape (using tar). The console locks up and I cannot free it by switching to another VT and killing the process. Here are some more details:
$TAPE = /dev/tape which is a symlink to /dev/nst0 BTW, what are those other devices --> nst0a, nst0l, nst0m, etc? I am using kernel 2.0.32 with support for generic SCSI, Buslogic SCSI adapters, SCSI tapes, SCSI disks I was using the command tar -xv * to restore a complete archive to the current directory Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks! Tim -- # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # Debian GNU Linux # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # Power to the people... #### # # # ## # # -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .