mounting scsi tape drive

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 15:53:48 -0500, junk wrote:
> I am having a problem mounting a scsi tape drive.
> The kernel sees it , but it wont mount.
> 
> >From dmesg:
> 
> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> sa0: <CONNER CTT8000-S 1.17> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
> 
> When i try to mount it:
> 
> [root at cpr]/dev(184): mount /dev/sa0 /mnt/tape/
> mount: /dev/sa0: Block device required
> 
> even tried:
> [root at cpr]/dev(185): mount /dev/nsa0 /mnt/tape/
> mount: /dev/nsa0: Block device required

You can't mount a tape drive like that.  mount only works for disk devices
with filesystems.

> [root at cpr]/dev(186): mt rewind
> mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument

Do you have a tape in the drive?  What happens when you type 'mt status'?

Try this:

camcontrol tur sa0 -v

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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