Sony Tape Drive

[Ray Hanes]

I use a travan scsi tape drive and use tar with it. I use the following
commad

tar -cvpPzf /dev/st0 <filename>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Meeker" <rmeeker at kc.rr.com>
To: <ainzerillo at billsoft.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Sony Tape Drive

> The best way from the command line would be to use tar.  Try something
like
> "tar cvfz <filename or directory> /dev/rmt0".  This should put the files
on
> tape with gzip compression.
>
> I've never done this before with a tape drive, so best of luck to you.
I'm
> sure that someone in this LUG knows tar better than I do also :).
>
>
> > I need to find out how to control a Sony SDT-11000 SCSI tape drive
> > using SuSe Linux 7.1 for Alpha.  I can rewind, and erase the tape using
> > mt, but I don't know how to read/write.  Can someone point me in the
> > right direction?
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Richard Meeker
> (rmeeker at kc.rr.com)
>
>
>
>

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