From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 0:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from front.linuxcare.com.au (linuxcare.com.au [203.29.91.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BB837BEAA for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com ([203.17.0.42]) by front.linuxcare.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id RAA20820; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:36:31 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: front.linuxcare.com.au: Host [203.17.0.42] claimed to be sydney.worldwide.lemis.com Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02704; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:36:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:36:24 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Abel Mayal Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive Message-ID: <20000628173624.E2209@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <004401bfe03d$05678340$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <004401bfe03d$05678340$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please limit your text lines to < 80 characters. On Tuesday, 27 June 2000 at 14:38:46 +0100, Abel Mayal wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to mount a SCSI tape drive. I typed "camcontrol devlist > -v" and it comes up all the SCSI devices that I've got installed, > here is the list: > > scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0: > < > at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0) > scbus0 on ahc0 bus 0: > at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) > at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) > at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,sa0) > at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3,sa1) > at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass4,cd0) > at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass5,da2) > < > at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 () > > I have two tape drives but I can't find out the name to use when I > do the "mount". I tried "mount -t msdos /dev/sa0 /tape1" but the > "/dev/sa0" doesn't exist. Can anyone tell me how can I find the real > name of this device to use in the "mount" command? We dropped support for block tape devices decades ago. It's completely impractical, considering the random access nature of a file system. Also, I'd be *very* surprised to find a Microsoft file system on tape. The names, however, are /dev/rsa0 and /dev/rsa1. The 'r' means raw (i.e. not a block device), and the rest of the name is at the end of the output line from camcontrol devlist. Now what data do you have on your tape? Or do you want to write it? To write, use programs like tar or dump. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message