How to Mount a SCSI DAT DRIVE i.e. ST0

[ushasharma]

I have a query related to mounting a DAT DRIVE i.e. ST0.


Can anyone help me out in mounting a DAT DRIVE.



Thanx well in advance



Usha

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'm fairly sure that tape is one of those things like audio cds that you cannot mount into the vfs - the backup software, including commands like 'tar', just seems to work without it. You can do

mt -f /dev/st0 status

to query the status of your tape drive

tar cvft /dev/st0 /home/joeuser
(to backup your /home/joeuser)
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 eject

(See 'man mt', 'man tar', etc)

However if you really want to try to mount it in the way you would with a disk partition, you could always have a go at the following (I don't think it will work though !) :

Firstly, you would need to create a mount point in you filesystem (I tend to use the device name as a subdirectory of /mnt but it could be any directory you like...

mkdir /mnt/st0

Then attempt to mount the device to that mount point using 'auto' unless you happen to know the specific filesystem format...

mount /dev/st0 -t auto /mnt/st0

It will soon tell you if it can't recognise the filesystem.. Howeever, in this case I believe it will just tell you it can't mount a non-block device !

Rgds, Iain