SCSI DAT tape drive

[Bob Collins]

At 03:40 PM 9/30/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>Greetings,
>I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box.  My machine has an adaptec
>SCSI
>host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive.  I expected to access my tape drive
>through
>the /dev/rmt device, but instead must use /dev/sa0 (I think this is right.
>I'm going
>from memory as I'm not at the machine right now).
>
>Is this the normal device to reference when reading/writing to the scsi dat
>tape drive ?
>
>thanks,
>-D

My IBM DDS2 drive is attached to my onboard Adaptec SCSI port and it only 
works when referred to as /dev/sa0. There are many /dev/listings for the 
drive, however there are complaints with some software, like Bacula, when I 
try to use the /dev/rsa0. So, I assume that /dev/sa0 is okay.

Bob