Tape backup using tar

[Stuart Bailey]

> What does 'modprobe st' do for you?
> It loads the SCSi tape driver for me.
> You'll lose any edits you make to /dev at the next reboot
> because udev creates /dev at boot time.
The st module was already loaded so I removed it and reloeaded using modprobe.

I still have /dev/st0, but for some reason I can't write to it.
I'm logged in as root, and the permissions for /dev/st0 are:
crw-r--r--  1 root root 9, 0 Aug  4 17:23 /dev/st0

I haven't rebooted yet since there are still active users. Hopefully I can 
reboot over the weekend.

Many thanks.

Stuart.

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