Re: No-rewind tape device on Linux Redhat...?

2000-12-05 Thread Pierre Volcke
hello Isaac, this is an example, but if your auto-rewind device is /dev/st0, the non-rewind device is /dev/nst0. If you want to crontol hardware compression on/off , you may use the "mt" command (have a look at the man page) for example: mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression off .. but compress

No-rewind tape device on Linux Redhat...?

2000-12-05 Thread isaac flemming
Hello all, I am fairly new to Linux Administration, new enough to not know very much about tape drives at all. I have a Sony DAT SCSI tape drive that uses 4 GIG/8 GIG with hardware compression tapes. I am trying to set it up with AMANDA but I have no idea which device is the no-rewind tape dev