extracting files from old DAT tape

2006-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the late 1990s. The tape from which I would like to recover certain files was made back in 1998 with bru. I loaded the module for it: # insmod st $ lsmod | grep st st 29112 0 (unused) scsi_mod95108 4

Detect DAT tape

2003-03-18 Thread GBV
How can I know if my DAT tape device is properly installed and configured? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Detect DAT tape

2003-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, GBV wrote: How can I know if my DAT tape device is properly installed and configured? I have a SCSI DAT tape on one machine, so I only have experience with a SCSI DAT. When the machine boots up, you should see the SCSI adapter driver print a list of the SCSI devices

DAT tape

2003-02-13 Thread GBV
I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft? thks

Re: DAT tape

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
GBV said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:18:38PM -0300: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? You don't mount tapes. Instead, you use tools (like tar) to pull archives off of them. From the operating systems perspective, the tape is just a file (/dev/nst0

Re: DAT tape

2003-02-13 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:18:38 -0300 GBV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? You don't need to, you just read/write to the device. e.g. tar cvf /dev/nst0 /home How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft

Re: DAT tape

2003-02-13 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:18, GBV wrote: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? I don't think you can mount a tape - not so you can browse it, anyway. How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft? Amanda does the job for me. It's free

SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. All my work stuff is back-upped on the the DAT tape and I need to get it back

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Derek Gladding
On Friday 08 November 2002 10:07 pm, Johan van der Walt wrote: I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. All my work stuff

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
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Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? The module depends on your SCSI card modprobe module_name Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:46:08PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. The module you need is aic7xxx Frank I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:46:08PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. It should be in /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/scsi/ try 'modprobe

Re: DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape

DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? Pf

Re: DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? It should be usable

Amanda tape settings for HP DDS2 DAT tape

1998-09-02 Thread David Welton
Hi, the amanda lists listed on www.amanda.org seem to be not available, so I'll ask here. Basically, all the Amanda docs have to say about this particular tape drive, as far as the proper settings are concerned are: define tapetype HP-DAT { comment DAT tape drives length 1900 mbytes