On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Randy Chrismon wrote: > It just happened that I have an old HP Colorado 8GB tape drive on this > box that I installed RedHat 9 on. Red Hat recognized the device and the > Hardware Browser shows it as /dev/st. I'd love to actually be able to > do some backups onto this tape drive but can't find any information on > how to access it. I'm guessing I need to mount it but can't figure out > how to do that. Once I have access to it, I'm guessing I use something > like tar or cpio to back data up to the tape. But I also guess that I > have to format the tape somehow. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO that > covers what I need to use this device? > Thanks. It should be /dev/st0, assuming that the ide-scsi kernel module has been loaded. Otherwise, it would be /dev/ht0. To make sure that the system is seeing the drive, and which device it's using, try the following, as root: mt -f /dev/st0 retension mt -f /dev/ht0 retension If the ide-scsi module is loaded, the first command will cause the tape in the drive to retension, if not, the second should. You don't have to "format" the tape...but if you want to do something along those lines, you can: mt -f /dev/<st0 or ht0> erase -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
