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James,

sounds like it's all working just fine.

Have you tried # mt erase ?

Note that while it erases the tape I've found that it goes into a state
where you can't stop the job until it's done and it can take a long time to
complete.

Then to do a backup, with tar, something like what you said.

I've used BRU for backup and it's dead simple. I'd amanda looks good but ran
into a problem on a large drive for some reason.

I'd be interested to hear what you come up with.

peter


James Mandy <jamesm@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
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> Ive managed to get my linux box to detect the just installed HP DDS-2 tape
> drive.
> It comes up in the kernel like this.
>
>   Vendor: HP        Model: HP35470A          Rev: 1009
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>
> No problem. Now.
>
> I look in /dev and I indeed have /dev/tape which is pointing to /dev/st0
no
> worries. normal.
>
> Now, where to from here?
>
> If I do an "mt status" I get this. With or without a tape in the drive.
>
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (10000):
>  IM_REP_EN
>
> NO other MT commands work? I cant rewind it, I cant do anything with it?
The
> only other MT command I have managed to get to work is "MT LOAD" which
> ejects a tape if there is a tape in the drive.
>
> My question is. Where do I go from here? How can I erase this tape? How
can
> I do a simple backup eg "tar cvf /etc /dev/st0" or something "shrug"
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> P.S what tape backup software would you reccommend? I've looked at Arkeia,
> and it looks pretty good, has windows client too, so I can admin it from
> winblows box...
>
> Cheers, James
>
>