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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
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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