This is my first attempt at using a tape backup on a Linux/UNIX system and I 
am in need of some help. I am faced with having to take whatever I can find 
out of a box of of old equipment and find a tape backup solution where I work.

I have searched through all of the Linux HOW-TOs that I could find and 
haven't come up with anything.

Here's exactly where I am at...
Have one one (apparently working) BusLogic BT-946C PCI SCSI card. I have 
found this card on RedHat's list of Tier 1 supported SCSI adapters.

I have one HP internal DDS2 tape drive with part number C1539-69201. I 
haven't found the common name for it yet. I also have one HP external 
SureStore Tape 6000 drive. I only need one of these to work. I thought I would 
go with the internal unit as that is known to be functional and more 'out-of-the-
way'

I installed the SCSI card into a Mandrake 7.0 system I am going to use for 
testing purposes. Kudzu found the new hardware and correctly identified it 
and configured it. I then rebooted with the internal drive connected to the 
SCSI card and the system booted normally without any mention of new 
hardware. I am not sure if it should have 'discovered' the drive or not.

Question: How do I communicate with this tape drive? It is the only SCSI 
device in the system and I have no experience with SCSI devices.

I need to figure out how to mount it somehow so I can use dd, cpio, tar, etc. to 
write to it. Would Amanda be a good tool to use?

If anyone could point me to some how-tos or web sites that could help I would 
appreciate it. I may pick up the O'Reilly book 'Unix Backup and Recovery' in 
the next day or two - I think that it could be valuable considering my level of 
expertise at the moment.

Thank-you,
Mike Glaser



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