[4879] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 2K sectors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tobias Richter)
Wed Oct 14 03:23:51 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:19:53 +0200
From: Tobias Richter <tsr@cave.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Linux SCSI mailing list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981012222042.9681A-100000@andante.jic.com>; from Eric Youngdale on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:24:24PM -0400
You (eric@andante.jic.com) wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, William Brioschi wrote:
> > 3) use the device in raw, sequential mode (through tar or something like that),
> > probably using the SCSI generic driver; I haven't tried this yet, is it
> > possible? should I do something particular or can I simply do a
> > "tar cf /dev/sga"?
>
> This absolutely won't work. The generics driver simply doesn't
> work like this.
The drive is correctly recognized as a SCSI disk not a generic device
though (i.e. /dev/sda or else). tar does work fine.
tobias
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