please help me extract info from tape

I have a client that wishes to extract data from tape. The tape was produced using cpio commands on an unknown unix machine. The tape is a SLR5 4/8gb. The client purchased a drive for me. I installed the drive on my compaq deskpro En series PII/400 . The drive is scsi, and I connected it with an Adaptec 29160. When I boot the machine, the onboard adaptec firmware runs and I used it to confirm that there is a TANDBERG SLR5 4/8gb drive mounted on SCSI ID 6. The machine is running Solaris 10. When Solaris starting booting, I escaped into the hardware discovery, and Solaris found the 29160. After booting I ran the command

find /devices -name "*scsi*" -ls

which produced the following:

drwxr-xr-x2 rootsys512 Apr 4 2005 /devices/scsi_vhci

crw-1 rootsys174,0 Jul 14 14:32 /devices/scsi_vhci:devctl

crw-1 rootsys29,1 Jul 14 14:33 /devices/pci@0,0/pci9005,e2a0@10:scsi

can anyone help me get to the next step with this?

[963 byte] By [aliansa] at [2007-11-27 10:36:39]
# 1

Have you run touch /reconfigure then rebooted or reboot -- -r, if so devices should have been created in /dev/rmt/0 ... etc.

If so then just extract your cpio if not then run the reconfig to create the device nodes.

Man cpio will give you the flags you require to extract eg: cpio -itv </dev/rmt/0 will show what is on the tape without extracting contents.>

pat.gibbonsa at 2007-7-28 18:42:46 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 2

it's been 10 years since I worked with tape on a Solaris box. This is X86, which is a little different, but I was able to do the reconfig( execute "b r" at the boot prompt ) . the drive showed up, and I was able to do the cpio. Thanks for helping!!!

aliansa at 2007-7-28 18:42:46 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...