I'll look at that manual page too.  After the post, we did some more
tinkering and we got T-ATT SCT to work and it appears we're able to
see all of the data on the tapes.

I'm glad you mentioned dd.  We were trying to dd the tape to an image,
but were running into some unusual results.  Maybe you could help with
what we may have been missing?  We were using this command:

dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tape.dat bs=16384

We basically got a message saying 3 records in, 3 records out.  When
we looked at the "tape.dat" file, it was only 48kb in size.  When we T-
ATT that file and did a T-READ it only showed the accounts that the
filesave on the tape created.  Any suggestions?

On Mar 10, 4:32 pm, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeremiah wrote:
> > Hey All,
>
> > We're working on looking at some of our older backup tapes here to
> > find out what was saved on them.  We have a tape drive inside the
> > machine (DDS tape) and it appears from the Linux side that the tape
> > drive is functioning correctly.  We are able to use dd to read/write
> > data from a tape on this drive.
>
> > However, when we try to attach the tape using T-ATT DAT0, we get the
> > following error:
> > "jtapeatt:ATTACH: Device 'DAT0' cannot be opened"
>
> > We did change the DAT0 file in /usr/jbc/dev to read:
> > JBC_EDIjdevTAPE -D/dev/nst0 -R/dev/st0 -B16384 -I DAT0 -M DAT -
> > LR0S70,-2
>
> > But, we're missing something somewhere.  Any suggestions?
>
> > System Info:
> > -------------------
> > Fedora 3 (Kern 2.6.9)
> > jBASE 3.4.10
>
> Upgrading from FC3 might be a good idea ;-)
>
> However, that aside. this might be a permission problem.
>
> I assume that the device name is the same as the one you are using with
> dd and that you have reviewed:
>
> http://www.jbase.com/knowledgebase/manuals/3.0/30manpages/man/sup12_T...
>
> Make sure that /dev/nst0 works with dd as well as /dev/st0, that the
> label spec is correct and the tape device is configured for variable
> length blocks.
>
> Overall, if you have the disk space, it is easier to dd the tape image
> into a disk file, then T-ATT FILE to read it.
>
> Jim

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