dds 5 tape drive

[Mitchell Gage]

Good morning,

 

I've just taken delivery of  a new server, and have discovered that backup
to tape isn't working. The tape drive is found in all the right messages and
logs, but a simple tar command to the tape drive gives me :

 

tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes 

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now 

 

or a command to just eject the tape from the tape drive gives me "No such
device" as follows:

 

/usr/local/bin : mt -f /dev/st0 eject

/dev/st0: No such device

 

I'm  told by IBM tech support that my IBM DDS 5 (Dat 72) tape drive is not
going to work for me under the Redhat ES 3 operating system - has anyone
else come across this ? Or is there any way around it ?

 

 

MITCHELL GAGE

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