From: mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen) Subject: Re: [Q] How to format SCSI tape for use with Linux ? Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 17:15:17 GMT
Ravi Sompalli (soravi@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: I have a question regd formatting SCSI tapes on the following configuration:
:
: Controller: Future Domain 1680
: Tape Drive: Wangtek 5150ES
: Kernel : 0.99 pl 4
:
: On bootup, the controller and drive are recognized. I am able to run the
: "mt" program and retension the tape, check the status etc. However, I
: couldnt format the tape. A look through the "mt" program and the kernel SCSI
: sources didnt turn up any FORMAT ioctl command. So i guess they must be
: formatted outside of linux (??) for the time being.
:
: Is there a hack to boot up DOS and invoke the SCSI bios format command
: through "debug" ? Failing this, if i do need a DOS based tape backup utility,
I think you are making a problem where it doesn't exist.
I use them all the time and I have never had to format a SCSI tape.
I am using a 2 gig Wangdat DAT & 250 Meg Tandberg drive under linux.
Just TAR, CPIO, DD the info out to the tape device.
Marc Christensen