Re: [LI] Tape problem

["Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Joseph John wrote:

> I had installed a SCSI tape drive in my Linux machine , now how to
> mount it , one of my firnd told for scsi there is no mounting, only it
> si for ide mout command is there , so please help me to read the tape


Only devices which have a "filesystem" imposed on them can be mounted onto
a directory tree. Character devices treat data as a string of bytes
without any pre-imposed format (such as that imposed by a filesystem) and
there is no need to "mount" such devices. You can treat your tape drive
which is a character device, exactly as you would treat your serial port.

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