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Re: SCSI Tape devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Farris)
Sun Nov 3 12:36:45 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Nov 1996 11:37:46 EST."
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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 10:31:23 -0800
From: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>
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>I am having trouble getting an Exabyte SCSI tape to work on a Red Hat 3
>system.
>It looks like writing to the tape works OK, but reading from it is a
real
>problem - it doesn't seem to rewind.
>Can someone advice what devices should be in /dev/... to handle a SCSI
>tape - and what (if anything) is needed to tell 'tar' what device it
>should be using?
SCSI tape drives can use two device entries in /dev:
1) /dev/st0 - First SCSI rewinding tape device.
2) /dev/nst0 - First SCSI non-rewinding tape device.
A second tape drive would be on /dev/st1 and /dev/nst1.
Make sure your not using the non-rewinding device.
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