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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:53:25 +0200
From:      Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl>
To:        "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: sa0 not mounted?
Message-ID:  <510EAC2065C0D311929200A02472526237A396@NETIVITY-FS>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: randall ehren [mailto:randall@isber.ucsb.edu]
> 
> are you trying to mount the tape like a hard disk? if so, you can't do
> such a thing. to write to the tape you must use a program 
> like 'dump' or
> 'dd', and to retreive information from the tape you must use something
> like 'restore'

I was trying tar... but even an "mt inquiry" on the sa0 device won't work.
Like I mentioned... device sa is in the kernel; but it doesn't show up at
boottime (dmesg).
I can however quiry and manipulate the device through the corosponding
pass-device.

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