>>>>> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> so you do NOT have /dev/ht0 as a device....
Alvin> manually creaate a device called /dev/ht0 with mknod...
Alvin> and give it the type, and major and minor id
Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
Alvin> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0
Based on the instructions that you kindly provided yesterday, I have:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /dev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -al ht0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 37, 0 Aug 10 19:50 ht0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$
Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line... there
Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands..
It looks like we're close.
Alvin> what kind of tape drive do you have etc would dictate which
Alvin> tape driver yu are gonna be using
This is an OnStream DI-30. The driver is supposed to be part of the
kernel. I'm running Potato with the supplied 2.2.19pre17 kernel.
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