From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 19:15:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA14290 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:15:17 -0700 Received: from tribeca.ios.com (tribeca.ios.com [198.4.75.48]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14280 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:15:15 -0700 Received: (from jspringr@localhost) by tribeca.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA12693 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 22:15:44 GMT From: Jeffrey Springer Message-Id: <199507122215.WAA12693@tribeca.ios.com> Subject: Backing up to SCSI & missing man pages To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 22:15:44 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1016 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to do a backup using dump to my scsi tape system. I looked in the man pages and found an entry for 'bt' and read that the tape device for it was 'st0'. It also told me to check the man page for 'st'. There is no 'st' man page on my system (I re-extracted the man pages from the cdrom). Where can I obtain the missing man pages? I then looked for the following files: bt bt0 st st0 st0* Whereupon I found st0cntl0, st0cntl1, st0cntl2, st0cntl3 and st0cntl4. What are they? Can I use them for backing up? How? I then found a README in a .../scsi directory that suggested I look at the man pages - the ones I don't have - and also referred me to a Chapter 9 - which I also don't have or know how to obtain. The README also had a reference to 'generic scsi device'. Buf, alas, no information about what it is, how to use it, where to find out about it, etc. I would be GREATLY appreciated of ANY help you can offer. Thank you in advance . . . Jeffrey Springer jspringr@tribeca.ios.com