On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the tape out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my tape drive (and SCSI CD-ROM).
scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Just a guess: Are you able to mount the st0 device? If so try a df -h once you have.
/dev/st0 is a character device, not a block device. You can't mount it. You write to it with 'tar -c <files to archive> > /dev/st0' and read from it with 'tar -xf /dev/st0'.
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