Re: Sony Tape Drive

[Richard Meeker]

The best way from the command line would be to use tar.  Try something like
"tar cvfz <filename or directory> /dev/rmt0".  This should put the files on
tape with gzip compression.

I've never done this before with a tape drive, so best of luck to you.  I'm
sure that someone in this LUG knows tar better than I do also :).

> I need to find out how to control a Sony SDT-11000 SCSI tape drive
> using SuSe Linux 7.1 for Alpha.  I can rewind, and erase the tape using
> mt, but I don't know how to read/write.  Can someone point me in the
> right direction?
>
>

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Richard Meeker
(rmeeker at kc.rr.com)