SCSI DAT tape drive
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Sep 30 12:55:01 PDT 2003
In the last episode (Sep 30), Darryl Hoar said:
> I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box. My machine has an
> adaptec SCSI host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive. I expected to
> access my tape drive through the /dev/rmt device, but instead must
> use /dev/sa0 (I think this is right. I'm going from memory as I'm not
> at the machine right now).
>
> Is this the normal device to reference when reading/writing to the
> scsi dat tape drive ?
Yes; /dev/sa0 for the first tape drive. If you want, you can symlink
/dev/rmt to /dev/sa0 :)
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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