Tape library

[Dirk Moolman]

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Sent: 06 June 2007 04:28 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Tape library

>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.


EXCELLENT, this is just what I needed    :-)          I found the
relating Linux device:  /dev/st0  (for /dev/obt0)


The first one being the Linux device, and the second one being the
Oracle device.

Problem solved, I can now write a tar to the tape library    :-)


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