Aaron:
Your command line should be something like:
mt -f /dev/ht0 status
to get the drive status (assuming 'ht0' is the device, and a tape is
loaded). If you set environment variable TAPE to /dev/ht0 (as per
export TAPE=/dev/ht0
then the following will work:
mt
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:33:25PM +, Aaron M. Stromas wrote:
i also noticed the following line in demesg's output:
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
does it have something to do with my tape troubles? tia,
It's standard in the slink distribution kernel. You can ignore
dean,
thanks for pointing out the -f . i'm still not through with the problems:
mortirolo:/# mt -f /dev/ht0 status
mt: /dev/ht0: No such file or directory
mortirolo:/# mt -f /dev/hdd rewind
mt: /dev/hdd is not a character special file
/dev/hdd appears to be the tape drive
it turns out that i had to create the ht0 device:
mortirolo: cd /dev
mortirolo: /dev# ./MAKEDEV -v ht
create ht0 c 37 0 root:tape 0660
create ht0 c 37 0 root:tape 0660
create nht0 c 37 128 root:tape 0660
mortirolo:/dev# mt -f /dev/ht0 status
greetings,
before upgrading the kernel i went for the first time to use my tape
drive to back up my box. the dmesg output contained these lines:
hdd: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
...
ide-tape: hdd -> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline,
190ms tDSC
but neither dump nor mt
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