Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

[Bob Goodman]

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>Help please with connection sa0 devices.
>I try to make the following:
>mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type
>The system gives out:
>Block device required
>
>I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on
>FreeBSD  work with tape stores
>
>--
>
> Nick                          mailto:nick at skif.itcom.net.ua

I assume that you actually _have_ spaces in the mount command you
issue. Anyway, in
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004-
April/001096.html
they say that

[QUOTE]
> > > > [root at cpr]/dev(185): mount /dev/nsa0 /mnt/tape/
> > > > mount: /dev/nsa0: Block device required
> > >
> > > You can't mount a tape drive like that.  mount only works for
disk devices
> > > with filesystems.
[UNQUOTE]
So, seems that you need mt(1) to use tapes. :)

Bob Goodman
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