Recognizing the tape drive when booting off of 4.0F CD-ROM

From: Carlos Martinez <carlos.mascarua_at_alstom.esca.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:24:58 -0700

Dear Managers,

I am currently trying to recover my root disk from a backup tape. I intend to use vrestore (all the filesystems are AdvFS). The method I am using is:

1. Boot off of the 4.0F CD-ROM,
2. Partition my target disk and define the file system type and swap partitions exactly as they were in my original root disk,
3. Mount the different partitions on /var.

At this point I encounter the following problem: the tape drive is not recognized by the system. I have attempted booting off of genvmunix on the CD-ROM, but this has made no difference; the device files for the tape are simply not available.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Carlos Martinez-Mascarua
ALSTOM ESCA
Received on Tue Jun 27 2000 - 14:11:41 NZST