Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:45:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rod Ebrahimi <rode@directhost.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using tape Message-ID: <19980225104514.20263@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <002901bd4177$2dc46040$0c8443d1@ip012.directhost.net>; from Rod Ebrahimi on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 02:54:35PM -0800 References: <002901bd4177$2dc46040$0c8443d1@ip012.directhost.net>
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On Tue, 24 February 1998 at 14:54:35 -0800, Rod Ebrahimi wrote:
> I have a sony 8mm tape drive how should I go about using it on my freebsd
> systems?
I presume this is a SCSI DDS drive.
1. Install it in the SCSI chain. If it's the first tape drive in the
system, it will be recognized at boot as /dev/rst0.
2. You can use any program to talk to the tape. There's nothing very
special about it. Normally you'll talk to the character device
/dev/rst0 or the "non-rewinding" version, /dev/nrst0. When you
finish reading or writing /dev/rst0, the driver rewinds the tape
automatically, which is fine if you don't want to read or write
beyond that point. If you do want to continue, use /dev/nrst0.
3. A lot of backup software exists. The traditional UNIX program is
tar. The traditional BSD program is dump. There are also some
other programs in the Ports Collection, notably amanda.
Greg
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