My SCSI tape drive works perfect w/taper but I cant find the directory

[adamrau]

Hi,
I backup my files using taper and everything works. I have a scsi tape drive hooked up to an adaptec 2940 scsi card. I cant seem to find the tape drive though when browsing directories. I dont know what directory it would be in. I have samba running also. Say from my client i open up network neighborhood and i begin browsing my server. SHouldnt I be able to drag and drop files from my client straight into my tape drive. I assume the answer is yes, but I have no idea what directory the tape drive is in. Its kind of like the same idea of mounting a cdrom. I can mount the cdrom and then use the servers cdrom from my win2k client.

Does this make sense???



Thanks for your time
Adam

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Tape drives are not mounted in linux. They are directly accessed by the software via the device file in a similar way to audio CDs. The console command to talk to a tape drive is 'mt' - for example :

mt -f /dev/nst0 status

(or maybe /dev/st0 - look at /etc/sysconfig/tape )

See 'man mt'

As to dragging and dropping... I don't think so somehow - unless someone else knows better..

Hope this helps