Quick Tape drive help needed!!!!

[Ted Beaton]

Polachak, Jason M CTR NAVSEA wrote:

>I have an 8mm tape drive that I need files moved off the Workstation to.  I know in solaris I would use tar cvf /dev/rmt/0  However I am not good in redhat.  I have 2 tape drives hooked up to this computer. How can I get the files I need off?  How can I tell if the tape drive is configured?  How can I configure it?  I have tried mt -f /dev/st0 status  it says that one of the tape drives is attached.  However what about the other one.  
>
>Thanks,
>    Jason
>  
>
Does

mt -f /dev/st1 status tell you anything?


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