I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg).
I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally returning error messages about sequential position. I am off to get some 120m tapes and have been through the man pages etc. for dds2tar, dds2index etc. but feel a bit out of my depth here. Is there a really simple idiots' guide to using DDS/DAT tape drives, something like the wonderfully clear HOWTO for jaztool? TIA Chris
