Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 12:15:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jerome Culet JD <jculet@slip.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Backup Message-ID: <19971224121531.48859@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971223173250.00938690@pop.slip.net>; from Jerome Culet JD on Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 05:32:50PM -0800 References: <3.0.3.32.19971223173250.00938690@pop.slip.net>
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On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 05:32:50PM -0800, Jerome Culet JD wrote: > Can anyone tell me the best way to mount a 120mm DAT-2, 4-tape autoloading > SCSI tape drive? You don't mount tapes. What do you want to do with it? dump and tar are the most popular archiving programs. > It is a "Python" and FreeBSD 2.2.5 identifies it as "wcd0" on kernel > bootup. wcd0 is a CD-ROM drive. A SCSI tape will be st0. Talk to it as /dev/rst0 (rewind on close) or /dev/nrst0 (no rewind on close). Greg
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