hi ya bob ...beg/borrow/steal a (real) dds1, dds2, dds3 ide tape drive... - hp series, exabyte series, etc
and try to read/write to that drive c ya alvin On 11 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > >>>>> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like > Alvin> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0 > > > Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line... there > Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands.. > > > Okay, a few chgrp's and chmod's later, my ls -al looks like you want > it to look. > > But I still get: > > mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind > mt: /dev/ht0: Input/output error >