Lynton Reed (lynton@alphalink.com.au)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:31:22 +1000
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting mt to work with the paride pt device.
Any advise or comments would be greatfully appreciated.
I have red hat linux 2.0.35-2.
here what happens
insmod paride
paride: version 1.02 installed
insmod epat
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
insmod pt
- the tape appears to rewind -
pt: pt version 1.02s, major 96
pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1
pt0: HP COLORADO 8GBe, master, blocksize 512, 4007 MB
so far so good but then I try
mt -f /dev/pt0 status
and I get
pt0: HP COLORADO 8GBe, master, blocksize 512, 4007 MB
pt0: Unimplemented ioctl 0x801c6d02
/dev/pt0: Invalid argument
trying to run the taper package results in similar errors (and others about
mt_op )
undeterred I tried to
tar -cf /dev/pt0 /testdata # few meg only.
which worked !!!! I was then able to untar and restore these files.
I then attempted a full backup (except /proc )
tar -zcf /dev/pt0 --exclude /proc / # is there a better way ?
but when I try to list the archive get
tar -tf /dev/pt0
pt0: HP COLORADO 8GBe, master, blocksize 512, 4007 MB
tar: Hmm, this doesnt look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Skipping to next file header
..................... ad infinitum
This may be a combination of requiring a patch and some knowledge of tar here
If you can offer any help advise or similar experiences I would greatly
appreciate your contibution
lynton reed
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