Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:15:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@anything-inc.com (Bob Collins) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI DAT tape drive Message-ID: <200309302115.h8ULF9W0008136@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030930154627.00a9fd98@anything-inc.com> from "Bob Collins" at Sep 30, 2003 03:48:13 PM
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> > At 03:40 PM 9/30/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: > >Greetings, > >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 ? > > > >thanks, > >-D > > My IBM DDS2 drive is attached to my onboard Adaptec SCSI port and it only > works when referred to as /dev/sa0. There are many /dev/listings for the > drive, however there are complaints with some software, like Bacula, when I > try to use the /dev/rsa0. So, I assume that /dev/sa0 is okay. Well, I usually use /dev/nrsa0 to get the no-rewind device so I can put multiple dump files on the tape. ////jerry > > Bob >
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