I have a question similar to Stephen Carpenter's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> question
which follows:
Last week I ordered a tape drive (and posted a question about
SCSI controllers) It should arrive today :) ...I realized
however that I still have questions...
someone mentioned "creating the tape device"
what is the name of the device? (I assume it is just
/dev/MAKEDEV <devicename> to make it)
is there nay good documentation on setting this stuff up?
I tried to look for a FAQ or HOWTO but I couldn't
find one :(
I have not been able to get a Colorado 1400 tape drive to work on my Debian
Linux server 2.0.6. I was able to successfully use MAKEDEV to create the
/dev devices. Since I could not get the tape drive to work, I used MAKEDEV
to create all three types of tape devices:
./MAKEDEV -v ftape
./MAKEDEV -v st0
./MAKEDEV -v qic
When I try to run the following command:
find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB > /dev/rft0
or find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB > /dev/st0
or find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB > /dev/rmt8
or find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB > /dev/rmt16
or find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB > /dev/tape-d
I get the following error message
bash: /dev/rft0: No such device
Broken pipe
Of course, the "/dev/<something>" changes depending on the device given in
the command.
I would appreciate any help anyone could give. I would really like to do a
backup of the system!
Thanks,
Chris Oddo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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