Re: Backup to DAT

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From: Dennis Wisinski
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:46

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In article <1992Oct30.150531.13088@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
nhuebner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nancy J Huebner) writes:

>  We have connected an HP6400/2000 DAT drive to one of our
>  NeXT to backup our network. It is connected to the SCSI
>  port as #3.  We are told that we should use /dev/rxt0 in
>  the cpio command however it doesn't work.  We have tried
>  to use the mt command with the status option and it says
>  no such device or address.
>  
>  Does anyone have any suggestions on what device we should
>  be using?
>  
>  Thanks in advance.
>  
>  Nancy J. Huebner (njh@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu) NeXTMail
>  accepted.

Try using /dev/nrst0. It works for the Archive Python DAT drive. It might  
work for the HP drive as well.

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

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