[H-GEN] tape drives

David Jericho davidj at amh.com.au
Tue Apr 6 03:58:05 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Jericho <davidj at amh.com.au>)

On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 03:47:38PM +1000, Luke Grant wrote:
> the following command line worked fine in slackware running kernel 2.0.29
> but wont run in redhat.

My apologies ;) Slackware *shudder*...

> tar -czlpf /dev/nht0   .

Under redhat, nst0 is the first non-rewinding tape device, st0 being the first rewinding
device. Use /dev/nst0 for tar.

Same under debian iirc. SCO Openserver does something horrible. Unixware, who knows.

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David Jericho
          

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