Determining tape drive type

[Qman61832]

How do I go about finding the drive type located in my Unix box?
I need to apply a software update from a tape and (being new to Unix...) I am not sure how to identify the tape drive.

The instructions from the software vendor state that I should run a command of &quot;tar xvf <tape_device>&quot;, however I dont know what the tape drive is or how to find it...

Is there a Unix command that will show me?

Thanks!

 

[JorGeVaL]

If you are using Sco OpenServer the device name is /dev/rct0.
You can use tar xv8 and if you take a look at the file /etc/default/tar you will see that number 8 is /dev/rct0




I Hope this can help

 

[edfair]

If you login as root and look at the file /usr/adm/messages you should see a list of the hardware that is recognized.
JGV is mostly correct, the device rct0 leads to whatever the real device is. Provided it linked correctly.
You might also want to look in the /etc/default/tar file and make sure that the #8 entry really is the tape device. There are some unix people that edit this file to cripple things that lead to errors. Line is crippled with a # at the beginning. And if it is tape device, it will have a &quot;y&quot;.
Ed Fair
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