Tape devices

[George Karaolides <george@karaolides.com>]

Hi,

Can somebody tell me what the various tape devices are?  I know that
/dev/st0 is the first SCSI tape drive and /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding
version of this, but what are /dev/(st|nst)0a, -l and -m?

mymachine:~# ls -l /dev/*st0*
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9, 128 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/nst0
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9, 224 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/nst0a
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9, 160 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/nst0l
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9, 192 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/nst0m
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9,   0 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/st0
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9,  96 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/st0a
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9,  32 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/st0l
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9,  64 Aug  3 10:11 /dev/st0m

Thanks,

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