Re: [ilugd] SCSI Tape backup

2003-08-14 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
On Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:08 PM [GMT+0800], Nitin Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > every one > I want to use my tape drive for backing up data. > earlier i was using it on windus through parallel > port. If so, the port on the back of the tape box is a paralle port, will not work w

Re: [ilugd] SCSI Tape backup

2003-08-14 Thread Naresh Narang
If device IDs are unique already... Naresh --- Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You usually dont have to do anything to access SCSI > devices. > > > Mithun = -- Naresh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site de

Re: [ilugd] SCSI Tape backup

2003-08-14 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
If it is actually a SCSI device it should show up in dmesg. Just look at the SCSI device probe section just after it finds the SCSI card. You usually dont have to do anything to access SCSI devices. The first SCSI tape drive would probably be /dev/st0 Therefore "tar cpf /dev/st0 ." should work.

[ilugd] SCSI Tape backup

2003-08-10 Thread Nitin Chandra
Hi! every one I want to use my tape drive for backing up data. earlier i was using it on windus through parallel port. now i have connected it to a Advansys (ABP940-U/ABP960-U; as shown by the hardware browser)25pin scsi card. Now it not detecting the tape drive. How do i check, i tried to mount /d