Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

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

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

> "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

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

> "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

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

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

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

> "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

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

> 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