I have just switched from RedHat 4.2 (gee, it seems I preface all my
mail to this list with that...<grin>) and am having a problem accessing
my tape drive (a Conner DDS-2 SCSI drive) The drive responds to the mt
commands I have issued (ie, mt tell, mt datcompression, mt rewind, etc)
but I have been unable to either restore any of the backups I already
had on tape before the switch or write to tape (using tar). The console
locks up and I cannot free it by switching to another VT and killing the
process. Here are some more details:
$TAPE = /dev/tape which is a symlink to /dev/nst0
BTW, what are those other devices --> nst0a, nst0l, nst0m, etc?
I am using kernel 2.0.32 with support for generic SCSI, Buslogic SCSI
adapters, SCSI tapes, SCSI disks
I was using the command tar -xv * to restore a complete archive to the
current directory
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks!
Tim
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