Arrrgghhh

 I figure it out.... One must use nst0 instead of st0... grrrr

João Seabra wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have an HP DAT 72 USB drive model C7438A.
> I have followed the instructions provided by HP for configuring the tape 
> drive and everything *seems* to be in place.
> I say seems because flexbackup --test-tape-drive fails all the 
> time.After some debugging and losing quite a couple of hours i was 
> trying to write files by hand to the tape after which i would execute 
> the command:
> mt -f /dev/st0 tell
> and the result is allways: At block 0.
> No matter how many files I write or whatever I do the result i get is 
> allways At block 0.
> In the begginging in used to erase the tape but it took so many hours 
> (2h or so) that now i just rewind it but nevertheless the result was the 
> same.
> Any ideas how to solve this and finnaly start making some backups?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> João Seabra
>
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