Robert Barish wrote:
Good Day All: I have installed a tape drive to perform backups. When I go into /proc/ide, I find the tape drive labeled as hdb. So I see the system is seeing the tape drive.
I'm not sure why your expecting hdb to be a tape drive. Ide tape drives are usually /dev/ht0 and /dev/ht1. Are you sure you don't have a hard drive at hdb?
Now my question is, what steps do i need to take to run the following command: mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb Now when I run the command I get the message:
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.
And when I run: fdisk /dev/hdb I get the message: Unable to read /dev/hdb So how can I get this to work? I thought the process would be just like anding another hard drive!
Also how do I configure the tape drive to be mounted everytime the system boots. I am assuming I have to modify /etc/fstab with something like
/dev/hdb /mnt/tape ext2 defaults 1 1 [This is after I create a mount point by cd /mnt, mkdir tape]
Again I don't understand why you expect to be able to mount a tape drive. I've used many different types and have never had to or even tried to mount one. I don't think your gonna have any luck with this. Your tape drive should be /dev/ht0. You should be able to access it with programs such as mt, tar, dump, etc.... For instance try to do "mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind" or "tar -zcvf /dev/ht0 /somedir" Regards Mark
Is this correct?
-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com