19 Jan
2001
19 Jan
'01
16:18
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:43:10 -0800, nevada wrote: | As far as I know, the tape drive cannot be mounted auto like | a hard drive is. It must be mounted from the command line (or a | icon on the desktop??) like the floppy drive is. Or more precise: A disk is a DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) while a tape is a SASD (Sequential ...) A sequential device can not be mounted. If you want to access it, you have to use streaming input/ouput (e.g. tar, cpio ) pointing to /dev/st0. -- Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available