I don't know your os, but in general terms, look at this:
Code:
$ ls -l /dev/dsk/c0t0d0
brw-r----- 1 bin sys 31 0x000000 Aug 31 2000 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0
$ ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
crw-r----- 1 bin sys 188 0x000000 Oct 28 2004 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
$
The lead b is for block device and the leading c is for a character device. A block device connects to a driver that does all i/o via the via buffer cache. It is very rare to have a block tape device, but some versions of HP-UX did. This supported mountable tapes that were used for recovery. These tape had to be specially formatted so they appeared to have a filesystem on them. I would be surpised if your os supports mountable tapes, but it is possible.
It is not clear why you want to mount a tape drive to tar from a cd. I would think you need to use a cd drive to read your cd.
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I just installed a quad gigaswift ethernet scsi card to my sunblade 150. I checked with the docs, and got all of the required drivers on the box. Now, I'm trying to mount an external scsi tape drive with no luck. I set the scsi address on the external drive to 0. Here's what I'm coming... (9 Replies)
What is the possible cause for the mount command to take ages? im trying to mount remotely : "mount -t nfs xx.x.x.x:/export/xyz/cdrom-4.0 /mnt/cdrom" on a system using bash. Im able to ping the remote server, but the system hangs or takes about half an hour to carry out this mount command.... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Would appreciate if anyone could tell me if it is possible to mount (and use) a remote tape drive on a AIX server, and if so, what are the precise configuration steps needed?
The tape drive to be mounted as a remote tape drive is present on another AIX server in the same network.
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Hi,
Would appreciate if anyone could tell me if it is possible to mount (and use) a remote tape drive on a AIX server, and if so, what are the precise configuration steps needed?
The tape drive to be mounted as a remote tape drive is present on another AIX server in the same network.
... (5 Replies)
Hi there: I'm new here
Can anyone help me:
I have DS15 Alpha server : Unix 5.1B
Now i need to connect a DLVT VS80 1U Rackmount Tape Drive unit.
What is the exact comman to mount the DLTape IV??
How do i make backuo @ copy file to the tape?
Thanx to all (0 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a AIX server with logical 3 partitions and the server is connecting a tape drive. the first partition can successfully making a system backup to the tape but how can i fail to mount the tape to second and thrid partition. would anyone can help me to deal with it? what command... (3 Replies)
Sorry I posted it in wrong forum first.
OK, I'm new to Unix (but an IT since DOS 6.2 era) Long story short I'm trying to help a friend who has failing Unix system which is perhaps 16 years old with SCO Openserver 3.4v4.2 with DDS90 Tape where they backup their data. I've setup a Dell Precision... (9 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
gitmount
gitmount(1) General Commands Manual gitmount(1)NAME
gitmount - GNU Interactive Tools - auto-mount script
SYNTAX
gitmount device
DESCRIPTION
gitmount is a script which allows you to mount any block device without specifying the file system type. You may now insert the floppy in
the drive and type ' gitmount fd0' and the first floppy will be mounted in the directory /mnt/fd0. On Linux just press F11 or F12. You
don't need to know the file system type anymore. The directories /mnt/fd0 and /mnt/fd1 are created if they don't exist.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to:
gnuit-dev@gnu.org
SEE ALSO gitfm(1)gitps(1)gitview(1)gitkeys(1)gitaction(1)gitrgrep(1)gitunpack(1)AUTHORS
Tudor Hulubei <tudor@cs.unh.edu>
Andrei Pitis <pink@pub.ro>
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> (Current maintainer)
gitmount(1)
05-05-2005
