First, I would like to thank all those who responded and helped me resolve
my tape drive woes. I have finally succeeded in writing to tape. Now i am
trying to mount the tape as a block device so i can read it as suggested in
the device drivers doc.

I do a... mknod /dev/btibm0 b 254 4

and a..  mknod /dev/btibm1 b 254 5

and linux accepts this without complaining and shows up in /dev

I then do a....mount -t iso9660 -o -ro,block=2048 /dev/btibm1 /mnt
i get as a response....
     mount:  /dev/btibm1:  unknown device

I guess no pain no gain..  :)

Once again....TIA

Ira Hochner
Mainline Information Systems

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