On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Brad Shelton wrote:

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 08:38:42AM -0500, Darren R. Weber wrote:

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I have never used a tape drive under linux, but I just installed a SCSI DAT drive. My problem is I don't know how to set it up. It's installed and the SCSI card recognises it. Do I have to make a link from some device file to /dev/tape? Or is there something else involved?

Access the tape drive as:

1) /dev/tape (if you have the link) 2) /dev/st0 (probably. May be different on your sys) 3) if you set the TAPE variable, just do

'tar c [directory to start from]' (uncompressed)

or

'tar cz [directory to start from]' (compressed)

To summarize:

If you don't have the TAPE variable set, 'tar czf /dev/st0 [dir]' If you do, 'tar cz [dir]'

Hope that doesn't confuse you.

Not at all. . .that's exactly what I needed to know to find it. Typed it in and heard it crank up. :-) I'll get the link created and the rest of the bugs worked out. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/