Joel Lansden wrote:
> Greetings all:
>
> I am running kernel 2.3.50 and I have an HP Colorodo 5Gb IDE Tape Drive
> installed. The kernel detects the tape drive at bootup, and calls it
> /dev/hdc (at the same time it detects the hard drive & cd-rom).
>
> My question is, how do I either 1) search out the device file that I would
> use to TAR to this tape, or 2) create this device file?
>
Joel,
I really don't know but since everyone else is out writting the history of the
information age I thought I would jump in. Can't you just use /dev/hdc if
that is how it it detected? I would try it anyway. I feel sure that tar will
work but now if you want me to talk about the mt commands ....
I found this digging a little on
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/intel/62/rh6.2-hcl-i.ld-7.html
IDE tape drives: Make sure you load the ide-tape.o module... the tape drive
will then likely appear as /dev/ht0. Do a "ln -s /dev/ht0 /dev/tape" so the
"mt"
command will work. Then do "man tar" and "man mt". Have fun
Linux Journal has an excellent article on backing up in linux:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue22/1215.html
Might be worth checking out.
Bret
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