I Need Help Reading Partitioned Backup Tapes

[dhaverstick]

I have a bunch of 4 mm DDS tapes that have two partitions on them. The device files I reference when reading them on an HP-UX 10.20 system are /dev/rmt/0m (partition 0) and /dev/rmt/0mp (partition 1). Unfortunately, my HP-UX box got struck by lightning two weeks ago so I'm trying to use Unix services for Windows or Debian Linux to read these tapes. I can read partition 0 just fine but I can't get to partition 1. Does anyone have any idea what device file I need to create in order to read the second partition? Is it even possible to read the second partition on anything but an HP-UX box?

Thanks,
Darren

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi Darren. There's something about Debian not coming with mt commands by default here:

http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses/build/sys-admin/ch04s04.html

together with advice about installing them. HTH.