From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 09:52:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA09570 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:52:45 -0700 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA09559 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:52:42 -0700 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA26509 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:56:11 -0400 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199510021656.MAA26509@ns1.win.net> Subject: re: dat tape problems.... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:56:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1084 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From: rjb@intac.com > I'm trying to get my Conner 4gig dat tape drive to mount under 2.0.5. It's > connected to an Adaptec SCSI controller. The st driver sees the drive at > boot time with and without a tape loaded. > I must confess that I don't have much experience with dat drives and was > wondering how to mount the drive and write to tape using tar. Any help would > be appreciated. Well I use one here but I don't do anything like mounting. It might be possible to make a read only file system out of one though - an interesting thought. I did that on an old VAX/VMS system with TK50 drives once. Ugh! To write to the tape..... # cd / # tar cvf /dev/rst0 ./bin will write your /bin... to tape. "man st" will tell you about some special mode for closing/rewinding/notrewinding options for the /dev/rst0.# The only potentially outstanding problem with doing a "tar cvf /dev/rst0 ./" is that tar will attempt to save the /proc file system. At one time this was a bad thing to try :-) Regards, Mark Hittinger Internet Manager WinNET Communications, Inc. bugs@win.net