"mike ryder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The tape device is probably something like /dev/st0 (usually the first scsi
> tape device) and you should be able to talk to it using the 'mt' set of
> commands (as in :
> 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' )
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ybnorml" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I have a DDS SCSI tape backup that is installed alongside my other SCSI
> > devices. I am wondering how I can back up to or otherwise access that
> > drive? I don't know what the device is called, as in ST1 or whatever.
Sorry, I meant to reply to this also.
The short answer is: generally its /dev/st0.
The longer answer is: Ask 'dmesg', if your tape was detected you should
see something like this:
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 0/10/0
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255
SCBs
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415
instructions downloaded
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: enable_irq() unbalanced from c881a55a
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.29/3.2.4
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter>
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Vendor: TRAXDATA Model: CDRW4260 PRO
Rev: 1.0f
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Type: CD-ROM
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel
0, id 3, lun 0
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version
2.1.15 of 17 August 1998 *****
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N.
Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi1: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-948
PCI Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
...blah blah blah...
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi1: SCSI Bus Termination: Enabled,
SCAM: Enabled, Level 1
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi1: *** BusLogic BT-948 Initialized
Successfully ***
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi1 : BusLogic BT-948
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:210
Rev: 1.0
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Type: CD-ROM
ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel
0, id 1, lun 0
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: scsi1: Target 1: Queue Depth 3,
Asynchronous
Feb 1 22:30:05 base-station-alpha kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 59x/61x cdda caddy
Looking above, you should be able to find my 2 scsi cdrom drives, sr0 and sr1. Look
for
something similar for your tape drive. If its not detected, then you'll need to get
that
fixed first.
Once you know that its been detected, and you know its name (note that it will be
/dev/<name>), then you can use mt, as suggested above, to see if its respoding like
it should.
Then, for backups, you can do it lots of different ways. (TMTOWDI?)
using tar:
cd /where/I/want/backed/up ; tar cf /dev/st0 .
using cpio:
cd /where/I/want/backed/up ; find . -depth |cpio -o > /dev/st0
(Not sure if you need the '-depth' or not, I usually use tar)
using dd (dd??? what??? ;-) (dd is if you need to make an image copy)
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/st0 ibs=xxx obs=yyy
Note - you may need to do non-default blocking on the tar or cpio
commands - see the man page for details.
> > I'm also needing the command to install RPMs from the command line in case
> > anyone has that handy. I just reloaded 7.2 in server mode and don't have
> > all the other neat little things workstation mode has.
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