Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!rutgers!im4u!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes
From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Anyone know how to make A/UX recognize tape drive?
Message-ID: <35@obie.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 04:30:04 GMT
References: <1577@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
Lines: 14
Summary: Unix and tape drives...

In article <1577@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
> The tape drive is connected to the Mac II, but I don't seem to be able to 
> access it.
> Any UNIX people out tthere know how to mount it?  Thank you.

You can't 'mount' a tape drive under Unix, mount only works for block
devices like disk drives.  To use a tape, you have to know the device
name for it.  You can read and write to/from the tape with tar, cpio,
dump, or dd (depeding on your system).  The device is probably called
something like /dev/rmt0.
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