----- Original Message ----- From: Nathanael Noblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:02 pm Subject: Re: (clug-talk) ide tape drive
> > On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 01:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > so I should be able to just send stuff to it from > > tar as in > > tar "options" /dev/ht0 stuff > > > > How do I make a file system on this thing? > > You don't. After each archive you create on the tape (and this is > simply me thinking out loud) an EOF (end of file) is placed. You > can > use mt to move between each file. umm like this I think > > mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2 > Which would move the tape forward to the third archive on the tape > > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > > mt -f /dev/nst0 erase > > self explanatory... > use man mt for more info. I just get continued input output errors but I hear the tape drive run. I have tried using taper and kdat as well same thing happens. I don't think it has a filesystem on the tape as its new. The howtos I've rad specify that you must format the tape before its useable. It really looks like this is the problem but I have no idea how to format the darn tape.
