Re: Tape access with mtx/mt/tar

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:14 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:06:06PM +0100, Rainer Traut wrote:
> 
> > [root jupiter ~]# mt -f /dev/sg0 status
> > /dev/sg0: Operation not permitted
> 
> You should use /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 for the mt command, just like
> you have a single tape drive (unless this is changed in RHEL4).
> 
> The /dev/sg0 device is only used for steering the autoloader.

not even that, you can steer the autoloader via /dev/st* too afaik.