From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 28 00:49:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA10773 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:49:09 -0800 Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (root@cats-po-1.UCSC.EDU [128.114.129.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA10767 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:49:08 -0800 Received: from scruz.ucsc.edu by cats.ucsc.edu with SMTP id AAA03851; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:48:16 -0800 Received: from osprey by scruz.ucsc.edu id aa27107; 28 Feb 95 1:48 PST Received: (from markd@localhost) by Grizzly.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA13393; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:45:14 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:45:14 -0800 From: Mark Diekhans Message-Id: <199502280445.UAA13393@Grizzly.COM> To: hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (message from Bill Hart on Tue, 28 Feb 1995 08:08:31 +1100) Subject: Re: SCSI Tape utilities (DAT Wangtek) ? Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Bill, > there used to be a utility in 1.1.5 called "st" for manipulating scsi >tapes. The classic "mt" program wouldn't recognise the device type >of my scsi DAT (Wangtek?) drive, but st worked fine. After having >upgraded my system to 2.0R months ago I finally got round to doing >a backup and found that mt still doesn't work and st seems to have >dissappeard. Any work arounds ? or source for st ? I use mt with a wangtek SCSI DAT drive and have no problems. Can you give some more information on the command line and errors? Also configuration informantion on your DAT from /var/log/messages? Mark