On 5 Nov 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > "Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, i need to back up that 9GB disk drive. My system has an Eagle(Exabyte) > > tape drive. The cartridge has TR3 on it. 95 seems to save files to a tape. > > I can retension the tape by mt -f/dev/ftape retenstion, but when I try to > > erase or save something to the tape, I get: > > mt: /dev/ftape: I/O error > > Not all devices support all commands, erase for example. Doing an > erase is unnecessary before writing, btw. And when the device doesn't > support a command, you get an I/O error. > > Presumably you're using tar, afio, or cpio to actually write to the > tape? Does that also give an error? >
Yes, I used tar -cvpzf/dev/ftape. /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I will install taper and try it. The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. -- Walter L. Preuninger II waldo on #unix at irc.wasteland.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://walterp.rapidramp.com> L I N U X --- Where you will want to be! -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
