THANK-YOU
yes it works! thanks a million. no errors, tape activity etc.
now i'll have to try a backup/restore for a real test and try to do some
automation.
thanks again to Chris and all who helped.
Chris MacKenzie wrote:
>
> try using the mt to get some info from the drive
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 status
>
> and if all looks ok try a small backup with tar
>
> cd /
> tar cvf /dev/st0 /boot/*
>
> then verify it with tar dvf /dev/st0
> if you don't get any errors then you can be pretty sure that you scsi
> card and dat drive are working pretty well.
>
> ---
> Rgds,
> Chris MacKenzie
>
> Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
> Mac-OS: "Where do you want to be tommorrow?"
> Linux: "Are you comming or what?"
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