Newbie

[Marc M]

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 at sbcglobal.net> 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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