Hello Komal,

If it's a SCSI tape device try the following to create and archive:

on Gnu-Linux -- tar -cvf /dev/st0 /path/to/dir on AIX -- tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 /path/to/dir

"man tar" for more info.

HTH

Trevor

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Evening Komal,

I am using evaluation version of Suse Linux 9.0 enterprise server. I do not how use tape drive in Linux.

<snip> Make sure that scsi module is installed and also st ( in may cases ).

then check the status.

mt -t /dev/st0 status ( for checking the status of the tape ).

Regards, Animesh.

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