[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm looking to setup a tape backup on my RH linux box(6.0). I have
> a HP Colorado 5G external parallel port tape. Can this be done?
> And if so, how? I can't find any information on how to mount the
> tape drive. Red Hat's site said it supports parallel port connection
> or did I miss read this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've never used a parallel port tape drive myself, but if I
understand your question, the answer is that you don't mount
a tape drive. You only need to use "mount" to add a disk drive
to the disk file system.
In my case, when I back up to a scsi tape drive, I just do
this:
tar cvf /dev/st0 /
I imagine that if you had a tape drive on your parallel
port, you would just do something like this:
tar cvf /dev/parport0 blah
Or perhaps:
tar cvf /dev/par0 blah
I'm not sure which device name is the right one to use. But
there's definitely no need to run the mount command.
Note: to get my paralport printer to work, I needed to add
this line:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
to the file
/etc/conf.modules
It seems likely to me that you'll have to do the same.
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