From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 8:27: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babelbrox.axion.bt.co.uk (babelbrox.axion.bt.co.uk [132.146.16.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621CE37C061 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mayala@info.bt.co.uk) Received: from info.bt.co.uk (actually zion.info.bt.co.uk) by babelbrox (local) with SMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:26:33 +0100 Received: from buzz1 by info.bt.co.uk (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA22179; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:34:16 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <004a01bfe043$43acec20$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> From: Abel Mayal To: Dan Nelson Cc: FreeBSD References: <004401bfe03d$05678340$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> <20000627101523.B19374@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:23:27 +0100 Organization: British Telecom X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I do "tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /usr" it writes all the data from /usr to the tape. BUT, how can I access to the tape to see what is inside? I tried "mount /dev/nrsa0 /mnt" but it says "Block device required". Is it possible to have access like in a floppy? Or how can I check what is inside the tape? cheers, abel ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Nelson To: Abel Mayal Cc: FreeBSD Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 4:15 PM Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive > In the last episode (Jun 27), Abel Mayal said: > > 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: > > > > at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,sa0) > > at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3,sa1) > > > > 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? > > Are you saying you have an MSDOS filesystem, on a TAPE drive? I think > mount access to tapes went away long ago; no-one ever used it. Or do > you just want to be able to read/write the tape? If the latter, just > use /dev/nrsa0: "tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /usr", or "dump 0auf /dev/nrsa0 > /usr". > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message