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Date:      07 Mar 1995 20:28:29 GMT
From:      lim@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov (David Lim)
Subject:   Re: How do I access my removable drives???
Message-ID:  <LIM.95Mar7122829@brian.jpl.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: David Bauer's message of Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:15:58 -0800
References:  <199502270015.QAA10577@worm.hooked.net>

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In article <199502270015.QAA10577@worm.hooked.net> David Bauer <dabauer@hooked.net> writes:

   From: David Bauer <dabauer@hooked.net>
   Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:15:58 -0800
   Newsgroups: mail.freebsd-questions


   I just got FreeBSD installed on my system. Now, I found a book called "BSD
   4.4-Lite CD-ROM Companion" which has all the documentation for using the
   system. There's just one little problem, how in the world do I see my
   CD-ROM drive? The book says to enter the command "mount -r -t cd9660
   /dev/sd1a /cdrom" if your CD-ROM is on SCSI unit 1. My CD-ROM is on SCSI
   unit 5, how do I access that? I tried to type in the command as shown and I
   got an "invalid device" command.  

I use /dev/cd0a for the cdrom device. Thus:
	mkdir /cdrom		# if you haven't done so already
	mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom

   Also, how do I access my floppy drives and (most importantly, so I can do a
   backup) my Tape Drive (HP DAT drive)??? (I have a Bernoulli too!) 
   -- 
   David A. Bauer 

I have a Wangtek SCSI-35 tape drive, and I access it via the /dev/rst0 device.
E.g. to tar off /tmp to my tape tdrive:
	tar cvf /dev/rst0 /tmp



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