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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:48:31 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Nick <nick@skif.itcom.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Message-ID:  <448846CF.40307@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <986949843.20060608121530@skif.itcom.net.ua>
References:  <986949843.20060608121530@skif.itcom.net.ua>

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Nick wrote:
> Help please with connection sa0 devices.
> I try to make the following:
> mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type
> The system gives out:
> Block device required

A tape drive isn't mountable as a filesystem because it is not a block device, 
ie, the tape drive is sequential access, not random access.

Try using dump/restore or tar to access the tape drive.

-- 
-Chuck



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