Re: RH 7.3 iso and SCSI tape drives

[Mike Burger <mburger@bubbanfriends.org>]

Hmm...ok...I suppose it might have been better if he'd said that...it 
would have prevented me from spouting off. <wink>

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Simon Matter wrote:

> 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...)
> > >
> 
>