Re: [LI] Tape problem

["Joseph John" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello
  how to treat  tape drive as a charater device
 which is a character device, exactly as you would treat your serial port.
  I am stuck with this, since i just migrated from NT to linux i don'nt have
much idea to do it please help me
                                      thanks in advance
                                               Joseph John

----- Original Message -----
From: Gurunandan R. Bhat <grbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] Tape problem


>
>
> 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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