no such device (?)

After too many months I decided to back up my user directory
(/home/holtzm) to tape. It's an ATAPI drive but I had to use SCSI
emulation to get it to work.This has worked well for a long time but I
haven't used it in quite a while.

[root@localhost home]# tar cvf /dev/st0 /holtzm

yields:

tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[root@localhost home]# ls -l /dev/st0

yields:

crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9,   0 Apr 11  2002 /dev/st0

So my very own beloved computer is lying to me!!!

Does anyone have any words of advice, guidance or consolation?

Thanks in advance.

--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
......check the price of the beer!"
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