From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 5 09:55:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA19899 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 09:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom23.netcom.com (stanb@netcom23.netcom.com [192.100.81.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA19876 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 09:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom23.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id MAA27584; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:55:14 -0500 From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Message-Id: <199704051755.MAA27584@netcom23.netcom.com> Subject: Help with SCSI tape drive device ID's To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:55:13 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have managed to trash my FreebSD box beyond useage viat cvsup'ing what was evidentally the wrong sourec tree. With help from a very kind person on this list I have it in what is probably best refered to as "limp home mode". I need to restore last weekends backup (see I do have backups :-)). I have been making backups by mounting the whole machine over NFS (actually using amd) to an HP 735 with a HP DAT tape drive. At the moment I can't get NFS to work to/from this machine (no big suprise), so I have attached the DAT drive directly to the FreeBSD nachine. I have never done this before so I am a ltille lost here. The tape is found during boot as AHA unit 3, I get a messsage saying it has been asigned to st0. When I look in /dev I see no /dev/st0*, so I did a MAKEDEV st0. This resulted in 4 devices called st0ctl.[1-4]. The backup is asimple ar of the whole machine, what I need to do is basicly: cd / tar xvf device_name My quiestion is what device name should I used? Thanks. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.