HP StorageWorks DAT 72 USB dev name under Fedora Linux

[A Roeder]

What is the device used under Fedora 5 for the HP DAT 72 USB internal tape drive? Drive works great with HP supplied RedHat diagnostic. However, HP diagnostic returns Generic SCSI device name that does not work. What device is used to tar data to drive?

[Kenneth Price]

Here are some useful commands for manipulating the tape and the tape drive (see "man mt" for the full reference).

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind - Rewinds the tape to the beginning of the medium.
mt -f /dev/st0 eom - Advances the tape to the end of the recorded medium. Useful for appending data to the tape.
mt -f /dev/st0 erase - Erases the contents of the tape.
mt -f /dev/st0 offline - Ejects the tape.
mt -f /dev/st0 rewoff - Rewinds the tape and ejects it. I recommend using this when you are finished writing a tape.
mt -f /dev/st0 status - Displays device status and whether or not a tape is loaded.
mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression - Displays and sets hardware DAT compression. We had tape space problems with DAT compression enabled and precompressed data, so I recommend turning this off for writing precompressed data.
Here are some useful commands for writing to the tape, extracting from the tape, and examining the tape's contents.

tar -cvpf /dev/st0 - The is required. This will Create a new tar archive on the tape device at /dev/st0 using the . Tar will be Verbose about what it copies and it will Preserve file ownership, permissions, and date stamps.
tar -xvpf /dev/st0 - The is optional. This will eXtract from the tape /dev/st0 the file(s) specified by a space-delimited , or, if is omitted, this will eXtract all files in the archive on the tape /dev/st0. Tar will be Verbose about what it is extracting and it will Preserve file ownership, permissions, and date stamps.
tar -tvf /dev/st0 - This will display the lisT of files in the archive on the tape /dev/st0. Tar will be Verbose about the list and display file ownership, permissions, date stamps, file size, and file name.