Here's some stuff on travan tape drives.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html
also good
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Mount
HTH
Marc
On 3/27/06, Mike McCarty <
Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thomas Allen wrote:
> Hi all. I am a newbie to Linux and Fedora....I am trying to get a tape
> drive (travan) to work on fedora Core 5. When I type the command "dmesg"
> I see that the drive is listed there and hdc as the device name...but it
> does not show up under drives's...do I need to mount this? and how would
> I do that? Thanks for the help!
Are you trying to use it as a destination for tar? I wasn't aware that
one usually mounted such devices. What kind of file system do you
intend to put on the tape? One mounts file systems, not devices.
Mike
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