How odd. Someone else posted this same question just afew days ago...Maybe
it was another list.
Anyway, the devices are /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 st1 st2 nst1 nst2 etc....
Dan
At 01:42 PM 5/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am trying to test a piece of software which uses the rmt program in
>/usr/sbin/rmt.
>
>On BSDi, this remote backup procedure worked fine. I have recently scrapped
>BSDi and put Linux on my workstation, and it seems to be having some minor
>difficulties.
>
>My guess is that the problem might have something to do with device names.
>
>On BSDi, the tape device name was either /dev/rst0 or /dev/nrst0 where we
can
>only use /dev/nrst0 because we want a no-rewind device.
>
>On Linux I assume they are /dev/st0 and /dev/rst0. At least /dev/st0 works
>with tar. Are these the correct device names?
>
>The rmt protocol seems to partially work, at least the machine connects,
>rewinds the tape, and after attempting to write, it dies at writing the
>tapemark.
>
>Anyone have some insight on this?
>Thanks,
>
>-dan
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