On 20-Nov-2001 urgrue wrote: > i need to mount a tape drive in order to make backups.
You don't need to mount tape in order to make backup. > trouble is, i > cant physically get to the linux box in order to see where it is. scsi tapes are: /dev/st0 /dev/st1 ide tapes should be: (I never seen any) /dev/ht0 /dev/ht1 and so on. man mt mt is tool to control tape devices. [...] > any other ideas how to track down this tape drive? ive tried just > running fdisk on everything that isnt already mounted, both hdX and > sdX (this has a couple scsi drives), but no help. arent tape drives > typically treated just like hard drives? No, tape drives are treated as sequential (access, or what?) devices, while hard drives are random access devices. > is there a way to dig up what exact tape drive this is, without > having to go physically look at the box? You can try to load modules which are for scsi or ide devices and look what they say (hint: dmesg). Oh, yes you can use dmesg after boot if you don't have console, and you should see somewhere if box have tape drive. Milan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
