Re: RH 7.3 iso and SCSI tape drives

[Simon Matter <simon.matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>]

Mike Burger schrieb:
> 
> it works just fine in the 7.1 installation.
> 
> Your first scsi tape will be referred to as /dev/st0 and/or /dev/nst0.
> Tar, xfsdump/xfsrestore, etc, all make use of it just fine.  The program
> "mt" provides minor diagnostic and administrative functions for the tape
> drive.  man mt for more info.

Not sure you're both talking about the same. I think Bernhard is asking
for SCSI tape support on the ISO's in rescue mode. This way it's
possible to boot in recuse mode and restore a complete system from local
tape. IIRC it has never worked with RH and I don't know why. I guess the
kernel-BOOT-* package does not include st. Unfortunately even if a new
ISO will be available I don't think it will contain st because they
won't change anything beside XFS as usual.

Simon

> 
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> 
> > May I ask for supporting SCSI tape drives in the hopefully upcoming SGI
> > iso for RH 7.3? It would be very handy to use a local drive in rescue
> > mode. This seems to have been forgotten in the SGI iso for RH 7.2. (And
> > please don't forget xfsrestore's libraries...)
> >