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Re: SCSI Tape devices
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Mon Nov 4 00:46:42 1996
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:38:08 +0900
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> :83=@L: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>
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> A&8q: Re: SCSI Tape devices
> 3/B%: 19963b 11?y 4@O ?y?d@O ?@@| 3:31
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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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