Hi all!

I have been given the task of making backups to a SONY ait usb-drive.

Since I have never mounted usb-drives before i need some help. I have come so far that
if i run dmesg i see:
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

and if I run "mt -f /dev/st0 status" I get:
[root@pia root]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x30 (AIT-1 or MLR3).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (1010000):
ONLINE IM_REP_EN

But if i try to mount the drive with mount /dev/st0 /mnt/sony i get the error message
mount: /dev/st0 is not a valid block device.

what have I done wrong???

Thanks in advance!

Hi..

You can not mount a tape drive.

You have to use tar or cpio command to take backup.

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr
tar -tvf /dev/st0

Regards
Siddiqu.T