got a question for the sysadmins

[Rich Edelman]

SCO, ewww... We have several SCO boxes here at work that I've had the 
displeasure of rebuilding.

Anyway, the command you're looking for to control the tape drive is 'mt' and 
it is in the mt-st package, although you can write to it with plain ol' tar 
and cp commands.

rich at rich rich $ emerge -s mt-st
Searching...
[ Results for search key : mt-st ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  app-arch/mt-st
      Latest version available: 0.7
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 34 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
      Description: Enhanced mt command for Linux, supporting Linux 2.4 ioctls

A quick search on rpmfind.net says the rpm you need is: mt-st-0.5b-10.i386.rpm 
from your RH 7.1 cds. 

HTH,

Rich

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 10:04 am, DAVID KUCHARSKI wrote:
> Recently had to rebuild from a drive failure in a SCO Unix box.  In the
> last few weeks I've learned a bunch about how my tape drive works with
> SCO.  In the process I added a NEW VXA tape drive to a LINUX box as
> well.  I found that the SCO box uses a command called tape to CONTROL
> the drive.  I can use
> #tape rewind or #tape amount etc to get all kinds of things to happen
> regarding the scsi tape drive.
>
> is there something similar in linux? I've tried tape with no luck.  Is
> that an option that i'll need to add or what would anyone suggest.  If
> I'm going to NEED to add something anyway, might as well get your
> opinions now.  Something simple to use in case i die  and have to depend
> on one of the non-technical people here to read written instructions  to
> get a back up or recover from another fatal drive error.
> Thanks
> Dave
> The system is running REDHAT 7.1
> in case that matters.
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