topic Re: read tape drive in Operating System - Linux

read tape drive

shiuhrong — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:26:59 GMT

hi, how could i read my dds4 tape media in my Linux? I try tar xvf /dev/nst0, it give me some error.

Joseph Loo — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:53:23 GMT

hi,

did u try:

# tar tf /dev/nst0
to list files in directory
# tar tf filename.tar
to list files in tar archive

regards.

shiuhrong — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:13:21 GMT

tar tf /dev/nst0 not working for me.

Joseph Loo — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:43:06 GMT

may i know the error message? tar tf or tar tvf should list content of the tape.

unless the device name of the tape drive is wrong??

regards.

Shaikh Imran — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:09:46 GMT

Hi,
Assuming that you are using DDS4 drive only.
What does this give
# mt -f /dev/nst0 status

Regards,

Stuart Browne — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:57:57 GMT

How did you create the tape?

With the tape in the drive, use:

file -s /dev/nst0; echo $?

what does it return?