Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

[Bob Koss <koss@objectmentor.com>]

>>>>> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> writes:

    Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
    Alvin> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0


    Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line...  there
    Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands..


Okay, a few chgrp's and chmod's later, my ls -al looks like you want
it to look. 

But I still get:

    mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind 
    mt: /dev/ht0: Input/output error
    

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