Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with tape drive

[Paul M. <cos...@ho...>]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me

I tried what you mentioned, and...

/dev/osst0 does exist, but if I try something like

mt -f /dev/osst0 setblk 0

I get

mt: /dev/osst0: no such device

Which seems strange (to me anyway))...

Just to report the detail, here's the ls -l for /dev/*st0

crw-rw---- 1 roor root 9, 128 Oct 26 2002 /dev/nst0
crw-r--r-- 1 roor root 206, 0 Oct 26 2002 /dev/osst0
crw-rw---- 1 roor root 9, 0 Oct 26 2002 /dev/st0

Once again, thanks in advance for any help

Cheers

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Brady" <cha...@e-...>
To: "Edwin Huffstutler" <ed...@co...>
Cc: "Paul Murphy" <cos...@ho...>;
<fle...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with tape drive


>
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:
>
> > Does
> >   mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768
> >
> > give an error? How about
> >
> >   mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0
> >
> > (variable block size)?
> >
> > See the "n" answers regarding the ADR2 drives and block sizes here:
> > http://www.linuxtapecert.org/drives.php.  This does not inspire
confidence,
> > but I don't have one of those drives.   Keep playing with it..... maybe
try
> > just a simple "1024" for the mt_blksize?
> >
> >
> > (BTW: you want to use /dev/nst0 not /dev/st0)
>
> Actually, for the Onstream, you may want /dev/nosst0. Onstream appear not
> to understand open source, and forked the st driver, rather than add on
> option to it to handle their non-standard protocol. Hence osst.o (for
> Onstream st.o).
>
> Beware that prior to RedHat 9, RH RPMs didn't include /dev/nosst0, just
> /dev/osst0.
>
> --
> Charlie
>
>