Re: GLUG: HP Colorado 5GB

[Willem Brown <willem@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Is it a tape drive? What does the output of the dmesg command look
like?

If it is a tape drive, the device name for scsi drive is normally
/dev/st0 for the normal driver and /dev/nst0 for the no-rewind
driver.

To access these you would use tar or cpio amongst others to copy
the files to and from the tape. Also look at the mt, dump and 
restore commands.

man tar
man cpio
man mt
man dump
man restore

All this assumes that it is indeed a tape drive.

Regards
Willem Brown

On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:28:22AM +0200, Graeme Walker wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have an HP Colorado 5Gb and need to backup either a Mandrake or RedHat
> system. Mandrake 7.1 picks up the drive, but when I try mount the drive with
> /dev/hdb, no matter what I use for the type, it gives me an incorrect type.
> Where to from here.
> 
> Graeme
> 
> 
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