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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!xlink100!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with scsi tape drive. Date: 22 Jun 1995 06:00:08 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3sb0t8$j7p@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <3sabkt$e1b@one.mind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: quatar.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Alan Laird (laird@mind.net) wrote: : Hello, : I am running 2.0-950412-SNAP on a machine with a buslogic 445c vlb : controller. I am a little unclear as to which device I should use with : mt and dump to make archives on this scsi dat drive. I have tried using : mt /dev/st0 offline : makes the tape drive light up but... mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline should work. n=no rewind, that means that you can do multiple dumps on the same tape r=raw device, rst0=character device, st0=block device mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3 jumps over 3 backups, so that you can make the 4th. Lars. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Lars Hentschke voice:033052+50726 line:033052+51576 14400/V32bis (public) | | email:nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de OR nuggets@tworivers.bln.sub.org (home) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------