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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:51, Nick Smith wrote: |
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> i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive |
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> with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and |
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> how to i access it? |
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tar -cf /dev/st0 writes to tape |
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tar -xf /drv/st0 reads from tape |
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mt and mtx for reeling and other fun. |
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> what would its device name be? |
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st0, nst0 and so on. use google. |
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> it is a scsi drive. |
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of course. Are there any atapi tape drives? |
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> is there any software that is command line based but has a menu |
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> system, possibly like the old colorado backup system used to have? |
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why a menu? a menu is sooo superflous. |
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