Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya bob

...beg/borrow/steal a (real) dds1, dds2, dds3 ide tape drive...
	- hp series, exabyte series, etc

and try to read/write to that drive

c ya
alvin

On 11 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote:

> >>>>> "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
>