--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 13:01:49 -0500 chris weisiger <chrisw AT 
neill DOT net> wrote:

> When i  run that command i get the following:
> 
> /dev/tape: No such file or directory
> 
> do i have to create a symlink from /dev/sg0 to /dev/tape ??

Most likely your tape drive is /dev/st0, sg0 is probably the
changer device. The default device for mt on linux is /dev/tape,
but you can also tell it what device to use, such as
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
or you can symlink /dev/tape to whatever device it is. Yoiu can
check dmesg or your boot messages to see what device your system
thinks the tape drive is.

BTW, I think Jon had the right idea about your amrecover problem.
I overlooked that you were trying to use a tapelabel as the tape
device.

Frank

> 
> Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:57PM -0500, chris weisiger wrote:
>>  
>> 
>>> so how do i rewind the tape?
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> "mt rewind"
>> 
>> --
>> 
>>|  | /\
>>| -_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics AT telepres DOT com
>>|  |  /
>> When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would
>> be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view
>> of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was
>> all of humanity, except me.
>>      - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
>> 
>>  
>> 
> 



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