But how can I make a backup to this device. I keep getting the message :
"No such device"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Schneider"
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:41, J. van Eck (Systeembeheer) wrote:
This is what is in my /etc/fstab file
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
i donot see anything in this file that can be of the tape drive??
can anyone help me??
thxs
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pettigrew"
To: Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: [SLE] Re: newbe wants to backup to scsi-device In a previous message, "J. van Eck (Systeembeheer)"
wrote: but when I try to access the device /dev/st0 with eg:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt returns the message "No such device".
Which suggests that it's somewhere other than /dev/st0. Is it in your /etc/fstab file?
"/dev/st0" will not show up in an fstab file as it is NOT a mountable device, this is a tape drive. -st = scsi tape-
Make sure that the tape drive is turned on when you start the machine, assuming it is external, or it will not be seen by the system.
-- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998
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