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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help setting up DAT drive? Date: 27 Jul 1994 22:35:10 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site Lines: 23 Message-ID: <316gec$4j6@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <CtIDz0.GKC@world.std.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <CtIDz0.GKC@world.std.com>, joe tomkowitz <joet@world.std.com> wrote: > What follows is what happens when I try to mount it: A tape drive is not supposed (in FreeBSD) to have a file system on it so it is logical not to be able to mount it. > #mount /dev/nrst0 /mnt (a character device) > /dev/nrst0 on /mnt: Block device required The message is correct. When you mount a partition, you have to use the block device (/dev/sd0a for example). > #st -f /dev/nrst0 status 1 > /dev/nrst0: Device not configured Do you have that into your kernel config. file ? device st0 -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386