> cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV st0 (should I have used sd--something?). I'm pretty sure you already have appropriate st (tape) and sd (disk) devices in /dev. > Vendor: HP Model: T20 Rev: 3.00 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. > Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SAH0 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] > [8.7 GB] > sda: sda1 < sda5 > This all looks good to me. But I think maybe you don't have the SCSI tape driver loaded? > [ allens@allen allens]$ mount sda1 > mount: can't find sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab I'm not sure what you expected from this: "mount sda1" is not a well formed mount command. You can say "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" (replace /mnt with wherever you want to mount the device). -- Dave |