On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 09:07:40PM -0500, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> Looking for some direction.
>
> I re-installed Redhat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36)
> I did a find and there is a ftape.h and ftape.o in the modules, so it must
> be installed, but there is not documentation on my system. The header file
> says it is version 2.03b.
>
> Do I have to still get the package and build it on the system?
> Can I just set some parms somewhere?
>
> The drive is a SCSI Seagate that uses 8GB Travan tapes.
If it's SCSi then you not only don't need ftape, you shouldn't waste
any time on it. Scsi tape should be /dev/st0, just use tar or cpio or
whatever tool you used to create the archive. (as long as you've got
either the appropriaate SCSI bits either compiled into the kernle, or
loading as modules.)
Fred
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