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- Subject: [386bsd] Help me! I need SCSI tape with mt(1) or no rewind
- Keywords: SCSI ernst1a rewind mt tar cpio diskspace
- Message-ID: <85549@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 12:35:13 GMT
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- I'm running out of diskspace fast (96% full) and I was wondering
- if someone could tell me the best way to back up, say, the {src,bin,etc}
- distributions. I have a 350MB tape, but I cannot fit all on the diskdrive
- at once. So I'd like to put one on tape at a time. Will gnutar's append
- command properly append to a SCSI tape? What is the exact procedure for this?
- And where can I get a mt(1) command or a SCSI tape driver that works?
- My SCSI.shar is an 11-part from julian's files on r.t.c.... And it
- doesn't seem to work for me. I have the standard kernel with all the
- patchkit patches, plus one minor fix for the slipstuff, plus this SCSI
- kit. I copied the MAKEDEV in and made all the tape stuff. /dev/[e][nr]st?
- complains "init: device not configured". Also, the old /dev/[r]as?? mknod
- numbers still seem wierd, what is the command to get rid of all of them
- and remake?
- What am I doing wrong?
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