Dan,
try using Taper.
as root use this command.
taper -T st0
thats the program I use for my tape drive and it works fine.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Dan Shanahan wrote:
> I am not able to read from my tape drive.
>
> About 3 weeks ago, I installed Mandrake 7.1. Before that I had Redhat
> 5.2. I backed up some file on tape before installing Mandrake 7.1, but I
> can't read them. When I type in any mt command, like
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 tell
>
> the xterm appears to not respond.
> If I check the process in another xterm, the ps command lists the
> process as "down" & I can't kill the process.
>
> Does anyone know what would cause mt to not respond?
>
> Thanks, Dan
>
>
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