abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) (07/01/89)
Hi. I have a question about tar(1). I've already RTFM'ed, and TFM isn't
much help.
I am running:
Hardware:
Motorla Delta 3640 (VME) system
- MVME141 CPU
- MVME327 SCSI controller
- Archive 2150S SCSI tape drive
Software:
System V/68 R3V5 (Motorla's OEM Sys V.3)
Problem:
TFM for tar(1) states that the default device for tar is
/dev/mt/0m or /dev/mt0 (note: _NOT_ the raw device). I
tried linking my default tape device (/dev/r41t or /dev/41t)
to these devices. Tar can read the tape perfectly (tar -tv,
tar -xv) when this is done. However, when I attempt to WRITE
to the default device (tar -cv files), I get an error that
it cannot create /dev/mt/0m, when I know full well that
a) special file /dev/mt/0m exists
b) special file /dev/mt/0m is writeable!
Any ideas out there?
Scott
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