adams@ucunix.san.uc.edu (James Warner Adams) (02/10/91)
Well, I guess I should RTFM after all :-). Anyway, Jim Putnam at Sun clued me in: Just use the /dev/nrst? device so it doesn't rewind. Figure out how many files are on the tape (I had already done this - use /usr/etc/install/toc_xlat) and then just dd them to separate files. I had just been looking at dd and mt, etc. and hadn't expected to find anything but ioctl's in the sd and st man entries. Silly me! After getting his note, I also checked sd and found that evidently the SunOS SCSI host adapter assumes that each disk controller can support 2 drives. Therefore, a controller address of 1 nets you /dev/sd2. -- Jim Adams Department of Physiology and Biophysics adams@ucunix.san.uc.edu University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.