Tape library

[C M Reinehr]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 09:27, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> > I have a Neo tape library connected to one of my Linux servers (SLES 9)
> >
> > One of my collegues tell me that the device names are /dev/obt0, and
> > /dev/obt1.
> > There are tapes loaded in both drives, but I cannot write to them using
> > these devices.
> >
> > tar cvf /dev/obt0 *
> > tar: /dev/obt0: Cannot open: No such device or address
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> One of your collegues is an idiot.  I've never heard of any Linux kernel
> setting /dev/obt as a block device for anything.
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt defines all the devices known to
> the kernel.

Maybe not an idiot, but possibly misguided. /dev/obt# appears to be an Oracle 
thing. I found the following page discussing Oracle Secure Backup for Linux & 
Solaris, which requires /dev/obt# nodes for tape drives and /dev/obl# nodes 
for tape libraries:
 
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b14235/obins_int.htm

HTH

cmr
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