At 16:52 9/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: >Thanks to those who answered my queries here this afternoon. The result of >the disaster recovery was that i was able to get the dodgy HDD back up one >more time, so used Samba to drag all the files over onto a CD using XP >(sorry about that). We then installed the new 60GB HDD and am currently >copying the files back again. > >Initial testing indicates a complete recovery...phew! > >Thanks again, even though I never got the tape working, I now have a bit >more breathing space to do so.
Simon, When you have a moment, try using "mt" to access the tape - at least that will tell you if the SCSI interface is accepting commands; mt -f /dev/sto status (or rewind, or erase, etc) Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
