On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 18:26, Shawn Fertch wrote: > Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but it reminded me of my tape > drive. This is a stupid newbie question, but I've never had to do it on > a linux box before: How do I find out what device my tape drive is? On Linux, the first SCSI tape device shows up as /dev/st0 (or /dev/nst0 for non-rewinding devices). If you have multiple tape drives, they should probably be numbered in the same order as they show up in /proc/scsi/scsi I'm not sure what the devfs names would be, though.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Okay, who stopped the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ payment on my reality \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) check? [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021116/b9ee2a84/attachment.pgp