I have a DDS4, and just use tar. To put stuff on the tape I use:
tar -cvf /dev/st0 stuff
To get it back off, I use:
tar -xvf /dev/st0 stuff
To look what's on the tape I use:
tar -tvf /dev/st0
There's a zillion other things that tar and mt can do to a tape, but I
don't often have occasion to use them. Also remember that tapes are
_slow_. And like somebody else mentioned they are _not_ random access.
So when you're getting the list of stuff on the tape (tar -tvf
/dev/st0), that can take a _long_ time.
I guess that's about all the 2c stuff I got.
Sean
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:23, aSe wrote:
> I just got a Sony DDS3 scsi tape drive. I'm looking for a free ware app to
> write/read to it using gentoo.
> Or someone want to tell me a good way to go about mounting/using it?
>
> Thank you,
> Gordon Keesler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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