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Sydney, 25 April 2001

Greetings,

Thanks for everybody who responded, hope somebody
eventually will explain to me why I can't use cpio
with this tape drive.  I sent back the tape drive
to the workshop for another checkup, and I will
come back to this question as soon as I have the
tape drive back.

Regards,

Ioan Nemes
inemes@transylvania.com.au


Greywolf wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> 
> # Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:18:17 +0200 (CEST)
> # From: wojtek@3miasto.net
> # To: Ioan Nemes <inemes@transylvania.com.au>
> # Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> # Subject: Re: Sony STG-700- SCSI-2 tape drive
> #
> # >
> # > When I try to backup:
> # >
> # > # find . -print | cpio -ocv > /dev/st0
> # >
> # > I am getting a few line:
> # >
> # > .
> # > ./local
> # > ./local/bin
> # > ./local/lib
> # > ./local/libdata
> # > ./local/libexec
> # > ahc1: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> #
> # use raw (/dev/rst) or raw non-rewinding (/dev/nrst0) instead of block
> # device. IMHO there is no sense of keeping block tape device support in
> # kernel.
> 
> I disagree.  It might prove a suitable alternative for a boot/root fs
> (yes, I've seen filesystems on tape.  Not always quick, but quite useful!)
> 
>                                 --*greywolf;
> --
> *BSD:  exercised any daemons lately?
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