🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct26.175847.19255@news.csuohio.edu> tgr@trans.csuohio.edu  
(Wayne Hogue) writes:
> I have a NeXTstation Turbo and need help getting this drive to work.
> 
> 1.  What drive number do I need to set the tape drive to?
> 2.  Is there a device I need set up?  Do I need to run mknod? and how?
> 3.  How do I access the drive from Unix?
> 4.  What software is out there to access the drive from NeXTstep?
> 
> Thanks and any info will be very helpful!
> 
> -Wayne


1. You can set it to 0, or 2-6 (1 is your internal hard drive; 7 is your  
cpu). If you have additional SCSI devices, you can't use the numbers that  
those use.
2. Just power down your system, attach the tape drive (don't forget to  
terminate the SCSI chain), power on the tape drive and then your computer.
3. Assuming you intend to use the drive for backup, you could use the tar  
command (in a Terminal window) to write to and read from the tape:

     tar cvf /dev/nrst0 .  // dumps the current directory to tape
     tar xvf /dev/nrst0 .  // copies archive back to the current directory

4. There are a couple of commercial applications that provide front ends  
for backing up and archiving. One is enTar from Impact Software  
Publishing, another is Backup Master from Teledia. I haven't used either  
of these programs, so I can't tell you what they are like. There are demo  
copies of these available by anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu (look  
in /pub/next/2.0-release/demos). 

--
Dennis Wisinski,   Stanford Linear Accelerator Center      
P.O. Box 4349, MS 97   Stanford, CA 94309
wisinski@slac.stanford.edu (NeXT Mail)