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madmax:
Hello:

I am in the process of resurrecting my old but practically unused Archive Pyhton DDS-2 tape drive for use with my TinyCore setup.
I have found tar in the repository but cannot find the mt utility to access the tape drive.

I have searched the forum but have not found anything on DAT drives.
How can I access the drive?

Thanks in advance,

TC

nitram:
The only tape drive experience i have is old Commodore Vic 20.

In TC6 x86 Apps > Provides search didn't seem to find anything applicable.

The author Kai Makisara's software can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/Distrotech/mt-st

Load compiletc, unzip download, run make.
You'll get two executables:
mt-st
stinit


--- Quote ---This directory contains two programs; mt and stinit. Mt is basically
a "standard" mt with additional commands to send the ioctls specific
to the Linux SCSI tape driver. The source supports all SCSI tape
ioctls up to kernel version 2.6.0 but it can also be compiled in
kernels >= 2.0.x (and hopefully with 1.2.x). Although this mt program
is tailored for SCSI tapes, it can also be used with other Linux tape
drivers using the same ioctls (some of the commands may not work with
all drivers).

Stinit is a program to initialize the tape drive characteristics. The
current version should be considered alpha. See README.stinit for more
information.

--- End quote ---
Place executables into .local/bin or create a mt.tcz extension.

Juanito:
I never tried it, but can you use the rmt command in the tar extension?

madmax:
Hello:


--- Quote from: nitram on October 05, 2015, 01:45:37 AM ---The only tape drive experience i have is old Commodore Vic 20.
In TC6 x86 Apps > Provides search didn't seem to find anything applicable.

--- End quote ---
Quite so ...
Nothing.


--- Quote from: nitram on October 05, 2015, 01:45:37 AM ---The author Kai Makisara's software can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/Distrotech/mt-st

Load compiletc, unzip download, run make.
You'll get two executables:
mt-st
stinit
Place executables into .local/bin or create a mt.tcz extension.

--- End quote ---
It's rather over my head, but I'll try and see what I can do with that.
Have some reading to do.
Thanks.  =-)


--- Quote from: Juanito on October 05, 2015, 02:12:11 AM ---I never tried it, but can you use the rmt command in the tar extension?

--- End quote ---
Have not tried it.
Problem is that lsscsi is not in the repository so I don't know where to direct tar commands.

In addition to that

--- Code: ---ls /dev
--- End code ---
does not show me a tape drive.
ie: tape or st0.

Although the tape drive 'is' there for TC:

--- Code: ---dmesg
--- snip ---
scsi: 5:0:6:0: Sequential-Access ARCHIVE  Python 03812-XXX 6270 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
--- snip ---
scsi target5:0:6: FAST-10 SCSI 7.8MB/s ST (128ns, offset 15)
--- snip ---

--- End code ---
(by hand ... =-/, can't get cut+paste to work in aterm)

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,

TC

Juanito:
Is the DAT tape under /dev/rmt/* ?

To copy and paste in aterm, highlight the text to copy and use the middle mouse button (or left and right buttons simultaneously) to paste.

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