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tape drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (c0wmfci2@mit.edu)
Sun Mar 29 22:01:12 1998
From: c0wmfci2@mit.edu
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:58:22 EST
Hi,
I have an Exabyte 8mm tape drive. The linux kernel is able to
recognize it at boot time but I am unable to access the files in the
tape. I get "no device block found" when I try to read /dev/st0,
/dev/nst0, or /dev/rst0. Does anybody know how I can read the tape?
I realize that I can not mount the tape since it does not have a file
system.
FYI:
The tapes are written in tar format using SGI's with Irix OS. The
tape block size is 63.5KB, which translates to a blocking factor of
127. My linux was installed with redhat 4.2 (kernel version 2.0.32).
I have no problem running external Jaz Drives from linux.
Thanks very much in advance.
Sunnia Lin
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