[ale] SCSI tape problem

[James P. Kinney III]

I think you can still get a "free for personal use" download of Arkei.
The colors on the gui are SERIOUSLY AWFUL, but it works well and is very
reliable.

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 12:42, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:30, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > To use the the device at a low level, us the "mt" commands. man mt will
> > tell you what to do.
> > 
> Thanks James.  The "mt" commands work and the correct device is
> /dev/st0.  I was trying to use the Kdat program that comes with KDE.  It
> seems it is either broken or does not work with my tape drive.  Does
> anyone know of another gui frontend for tape backups on a scsi tape
> drive?  Free would would be cool of course :-)
> 
> TIA,
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