I've been struggling with the problem off and on for the past several days, and
I'm hoping someone here can help me out.
My machine is all SCSI and it has a tape drive. The drive is recognized by the
BIOS and during startup, but the system is completely non-responsive when I try
to access /dev/st0. Here's the only mention of the drive from dmesg:
(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: Seagate Model: STT8000N Rev: 3.22
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
I've tried using cpio to write something to /dev/st0, but it kicks out the
following:
$ find /home -print | cpio -o > /dev/st0
found end of tape. To continue, type device/file name when ready
I downloaded and tried lnxbackup, and it kicked out the following error:
tar (grandchild): Cannot open archice /dev/st0/mybackup.tar.tgz: Not a directory
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
During neither of these procedures does the tape drive ever make a sound. Can
someone please tell me what I'm missing?
Thanks!
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steve
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