Re: How do you mount an ATAPI Tape drive?

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 02:04 PM 8/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have an ATAPI tape drive I can't seem to mount. Can anyone help or point me
>in the right direction?

I don't think you're likely to mount it.  I thought mt worked with ATAPI to
position the tape.  To manage the contents I generally use tar...

list a tape		tar -lvf <device> 
tar whole fs		tar -cvf <device> /
tar my home:		tar -cvf <device> /home/amead
compare:		cd /home/amead; tar -df <device> 
untar:			cd /; tar -xvf <device>

HTH

-Alan
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