hi ya bob
...beg/borrow/steal a (real) dds1, dds2, dds3 ide tape drive...
- hp series, exabyte series, etc
and try to read/write to that drive
c ya
alvin
On 11 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
> > "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Alvin> if the device is made prop
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
Alvin> crw-rw 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0
Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line... there
Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar comm
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> so you do NOT have /dev/ht0 as a device
Alvin> manually creaate a device called /dev/ht0 with mknod...
Alvin> and give it the type, and major and minor id
Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
hi ya bob...
mt is complaining
so you do NOT have /dev/ht0 as a device
until mt worksand you can hear the tape rewind and/or eject...
its NOT working yet...
manually creaate a device called /dev/ht0 with mknod...
and give it the type, and major and minor id
if the device is made
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> did you try: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ht0
That's exactly what I did.
Alvin> = should work, if not...
Alvin> more info
Alvin> http://www-wsg.cso.uiuc.edu/resources/unixguide/devices.html
Alvin> you do it the
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> hi ya bob
Alvin> you created a file called /dev/ht0 that filled up the
Alvin> available space in / causes device full to tar
/dev/ht0 was supposed to go to my tape drive. Why didn't it???
--
Robert Koss, Ph.D.
> Alvin> you need to create a tape decice called /dev/ht0 and/or ln
> Alvin> -s /dev/hdc /dev/ht0 ( donno if it would work )
>
> Alvin>"MAKEDEV /dev/ht0" should work
>
> MAKDEV: don't know hot to make device "/dev/ht0"
>
> Now I seem to be screwed.
did you try:
cd /dev
hi ya bob
you created a file called /dev/ht0 that filled up the available
space in / causes device full to tar
c ya
alvin
On 10 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
>
> > "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Alvin> if the device is full... you have too much data
>
>
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> you need to remove the file called /dev/ht0 that was
Alvin> created by the tar command when trying to write to tape
Alvin> that did not work...
Alvin> you need to create a tape decice called /dev/ht0 and/or ln
Alvin
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> if the device is full... you have too much data
The device isn't full. When I issued the tar command, it worked for a
few seconds and then gave me the error message. Nothing went to tape.
--
Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Train
hi ya bob
you need to remove the file called /dev/ht0
that was created by the tar command when trying to write to tape
that did not work...
you need to create a tape decice called /dev/ht0
and/or ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/ht0 ( donno if it would work )
"MAKEDEV /dev/ht0" should work
now do
hi ya bob
if the device is full... you have too much data
- remove all the junk files...
- core, /tmp, /var/log/ files you dont want
- use 2 tapes instead for the various "stuff"
- compress it instead
tar zcvbf 64 /dev/ht0 /stuff /moreStuff
- note the "z"
> "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> You may need to install the ide-tape module if it's not
Michael> in the kernel you are running already.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ grep OnStream dmesg
hdc: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var
On 10 Aug 2001 16:39:29 -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
>
> When this box was running RH, I would backup using my Onstream tape
> drive thusly:
>
> tar cvbf 64 /dev/ht0 /stuff /moreStuff
>
>
> With my recent Debian install, this no longer works, giving me a
> "device full" error.
>
> But, with the 2.2
When this box was running RH, I would backup using my Onstream tape
drive thusly:
tar cvbf 64 /dev/ht0 /stuff /moreStuff
With my recent Debian install, this no longer works, giving me a
"device full" error.
But, with the 2.2.19 kernel included with Debian, the Onstream driver
is included in t
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