Tape Drive

[LuckieIrie]

I have a Sony DLT 9000 Drive and I am using KDAT, How do I mount the drive to use it for backups?

 

[thedaver]

man mount

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[KenCunningham]

Try a keyword serach in this forum for 'tape drive'. There are several threads which might meet your requirement. AFAIK, you don't 'mount' a tape device like you would a filesystem, it should appear in /dev/rmt or wherever if it's picked up automatically on rebooting the box. HTH.

 

[KenCunningham]

'serach'? search of course! - Bad case of fat fingers this morning!

 

[jsentelle]

Your DLT 9000 should show up in KDAT as /dev/st0 if it is the first scsi tape drive.

 

[LuckieIrie]

Thanks to all of you. I had tried to mount the /dev/st0 once before, but I did it just now and it mounted.

 

[unixfreak]

How did you mount it?

Cheer

 

[LuckieIrie]

I mounted it by going back into KDAT / PREFERENCES and specifing the the device as dev/st0 and it mounted right away.

 

[stoolpigeon]

You don't mount tape drives. They are devices. You use programs like mt and tar to work with tape drives. Things like:

mt -f /dev/nst0 status
or
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

(st0 is the auto-rewind device, nst0 is the non-rewinding device.)

You can google on the web and find some decent tutorials for using tape drives. They do not work like hard drives- it is a little different.

A lot of times people will make a link called tape or something and connect it to the device so they can just use the name tape.

 

[unixfreak]

I don't think I've ever met a Unix admin who understood that mounting is for file systems, not devices. It's not even a newbie thing.

Cheers