Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:01:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Charlie Root <rbb0002@unt.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Tape Drives Message-ID: <XFMail.010611140128.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3B2487A2.8531AB63@unt.edu>
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This has got nothing to do with fstab. Do you have a tape in the drive? Is it recognized at boot (dmesg)? There is no file system on a tape drive, you just tar or dump stuff to it. It is like one giant string of chars. /M On 11-Jun-01 Charlie Root wrote: > I am installing a HP Colorado Tape Drive on my 4.2 FreeBSD machine. I > am trying to figure out what the FStype of the fdrive is, the device is > nsa0 I think, found that out by running mt status and getting the error > messege "mt /dev/nsa0: Device not configured" I am thinking that all I > need to do is add a line in my /etc/fstab stating: > /dev/nsa0 /tape > fstype options dump pass# > > And if anybody could tell me what options, dump and pass# values I > should put, that would me greatly appreciated. > > Bob Bomar > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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