On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:
under FreeBSD you can access the tape drive (scsi) as
TAPE="/dev/rsa0"
as an example my dmesg shows the tape drive as
sa0: <SONY SDT-5000 3.30> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
Apart from that yeah you'd need to login and have a stickybeak, helps if
you know what to look for.
> You probably need to rummage round /dev rather than /proc
> Also man tar on their machine will probably tell you the default tape device
> name,
> eg /dev/rmt0 or /dev/mt or whatever.
> mt status
> should tell you the status of the default tape drive and whether a tape is
no this will not work... as it may default to /dev/nrsa0 which may/maynot
be the device required.
> loaded.
> man mt for other things.
> These tools are fairly consistent amongst the various flavours of Unix but
> the device naming isn't.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jill.
/Norman
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