From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 12:55:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F02516A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC6A43F75 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h8UJsxsU031398; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:54:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:54:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Darryl Hoar Message-ID: <20030930195459.GF74320@dan.emsphone.com> References: <048001c3878a$be52f450$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <048001c3878a$be52f450$0701a8c0@darryl> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI DAT tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:55:01 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 30), Darryl Hoar said: > I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box. My machine has an > adaptec SCSI host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive. I expected to > access my tape drive through the /dev/rmt device, but instead must > use /dev/sa0 (I think this is right. I'm going from memory as I'm not > at the machine right now). > > Is this the normal device to reference when reading/writing to the > scsi dat tape drive ? Yes; /dev/sa0 for the first tape drive. If you want, you can symlink /dev/rmt to /dev/sa0 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com