topic tape drive on lunix 6.1 in Operating System - Linux

tape drive on lunix 6.1

manu_5 — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:58:37 GMT

Hi,
I am using tape drive on red hat 6.1 but when i reboot the system , it gives the i/o error

Re: tape drive on lunix 6.1

manu_5 — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:36:45 GMT

tar cvf /dev/st0 /data
tar: /dev/st0: Read-only file system

getting the above error

Re: tape drive on lunix 6.1

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:07:42 GMT

I'm wondering if the device is installed corrrectly.

Does it have power?

Have you possibily overwritten the device files with regular files. That might be the cause of your error message.

RedHat 6.x has enough hardware probe tools to let you run basic tests.

Also, is the cabling solid? Is it an IDE drive?

Details will help the real Linux wizzes help you.

P