Nicolas Le Gaillart wrote:
>
> I would like to know how to use a tape drive connected to a SCSI Adaptec
> AVA-1505.
> The SCSI card is configured and recognised by the system, using the 152x
> kernel module.
>
> The thing is, I'm not able to access the tape drive in any way: I tried
> to mount /dev/st0 (which should be the first SCSI rewindable drive) and
> it doesn't work (error: "not a block device"). The MAKEDEV script
> doesn't seem to work too...
>
> Help me, please help me...
> Thank you in advance.
try :
tar -zcvf /dev/st0 /to_be_saved
it should work fine.
you can't mount a tape under Linux, and maybe under other *nixes too.
bye,
Jerome ALET
