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Re: Accessing a SCSI dat tape in Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Popov)
Fri Jun 20 13:53:21 1997
To: tes@topeng.com
cc: scsi -linux <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:44:50 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:04:46 -0700
From: Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
Bill,
> I have Linux Red hat version 4.1 and I can't seem to get my SCSI HP dat
> tape to mount.
You can't really "mount" a sequential access device.
> At bootup, linux seems to identify it and does not assign a /dev/st?.
> I've looked thru HOWTO and havn't seen the ans.
> Can you point me to the location where the answer is or give me a bit of
> guidance?
Make sure you have tape support (st) compiled. Try accessing your
tape with mt; I believe it should be st0.
"mt -f /dev/st0 status" should find your drive.
Pete
